I have not done this myself, but reading through your book I see no reference to actual sample file names. I mention this because UNIX-ish operating systems download the tar.gz source archives while Windows works with the zip binary packages, and I can't tell what files you are putting in the repository. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote: >I set up a local repo for testing packages. My packages are not >showing up from the repository when viewed by Linux clients. I suspect >this is a web administrator/firewall issue, but it could be I created >the repo wrongly. I am supposed to run write_PACKAGES separately in >each R-version folder. Right? > >Maybe other novices can use these scripts, if they are not wrong :) > >Here's the file structure. On the file space that the Web server can >see, I create a folder "/tools/kran" and directories > > bin > macosx > leopard > contrib > 2.13 > 2.14 > 2.15 > > windows > contrib > 2.13 > 2.14 > 2.15 >src > contrib > 2.13 > 2.14 > 2.15 > >That's created by this: >############################################# >create_repo_tree <- function(local.repos, rversions){ > > folders <- c("/bin/windows/contrib", >"/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib", "/src/contrib") > for(dir in folders){ > dirs <- paste(local.repos, dir, "/", rversions, sep='') > lapply(dirs, dir.create, recursive = TRUE, showWarnings = TRUE) > } >} > >create_repo_tree("/tools/kran", c(2.13, 2.14, 2.15)) >########################################### > >My CRAN mirror is in a sister folder /tools/cran and that works >properly to be served at the address http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran. > >I want our local testing thing to show at similar >http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran. Supposing the Apache web server magic >is done, I *believe* the following should work. > >I dropped packages in the right version folders, and I wrote a script >that goes separately to each version number folder and runs >write_PACKAGES. > >### Researchers can upload >### packages into the approrpriate folder. >### Administratively, we schedule this run run every night >write_PACKAGES_wrapper <- function(local.repos) { > require(tools) > > rversions <- dir(path = paste(local.repos, >"/bin/windows/contrib", sep=""), full.names = TRUE) > for (i in rversions) write_PACKAGES(dir = i, subdirs=TRUE, >type="win.binary") > >#repeat > rversions <- dir(path = paste(local.repos, >"/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib", sep=""), full.names = TRUE) > for (i in rversions) write_PACKAGES(dir = i, subdirs=TRUE, >type="mac.binary") > > rversions <- dir(path = paste(local.repos, "/src/contrib", >sep=""), full.names = TRUE) >for (i in rversions) write_PACKAGES(dir = i, subdirs=TRUE, >type="source") >} > > >write_PACKAGES_wrapper("/tools/kran") > >############################# > >Right? > >After running that, I do see the PACKAGES files appear under the >version number directories. > >However, from the linux clients I see this: > >> install.packages("rockchalk", repos="http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran") >Installing package(s) into >‘/home/pauljohn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’ >(as ‘lib’ is unspecified) >Warning: unable to access index for repository >http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran/src/contrib >Warning message: >package ‘rockchalk’ is not available (for R version 2.15.0) > >The Web administrator here suggests I've done the write_PACKAGES >incorrectly because there is no PACKAGES file in >/tools/kran/src/contrib. But I do have PACKAGES files in the >subfolders 2.15. > > >However, on a windows system, it does work. > >> install.packages("rockchalk", repos="http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran") >trying URL >'http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/rockchalk_1.5.5.06.zip' >Content type 'application/zip' length 486682 bytes (475 Kb) >opened URL >downloaded 475 Kb > >package ‘rockchalk’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > >The downloaded binary packages are in > C:\Users\pauljohn32\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpq0m3Id\downloaded_packages > >The Web admin folks say to me, "if we did it wrong, nothing would >work. Some does, so it is your fault." > >-- >Paul E. Johnson >Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director >1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods >University of Kansas University of Kansas >http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.