Googling for "gregmisc update" points us, e.g., to http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/devel/05/06/1140.html
Uwe Ligges Thomas Schönhoff wrote: > Hello, > > I notice an odd behavior of gregmisc package when using > "update.packages()" via R --no-save (as root). > Every time I launch update.packages() gregmisc is repeatedly selected > for upgrade. Current available version of gregmisc is 2.08 according > to 'installed.packages()'. Despite I obviousely have already installed > the most up to date gregmisc, gregmisc will be updated repeatedly? > > No one seems to have noticed a similar behavior like this before > according to mail archive. All dependencies are seemingly meet and no > error messages occured, so I am kind of stuck to figure out what > happens here. > Here is my update session: > > thomas# R --no-save > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>update.packages() > > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done > gregmisc : > Version 2.0.6 installed in /usr/lib/R/site-library > Version 2.0.8 available at http://pangora.org/cran > Update (y/N/c)? y > try URL 'http://pangora.org/cran/src/contrib/gregmisc_2.0.8.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 901 bytes > URL opened > ================================================== > downloaded 901 bytes > > * Installing *source* package 'gregmisc' ... > No man pages found in package 'gregmisc' > ** building package indices ... > * DONE (gregmisc) > > The downloaded packages are in > /tmp/Rtmp4Thydf/downloaded_packages > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When I relaunch 'update.packages()' the same as desribed above is > going to happen again? > > Do I miss something? > > regards > > Thomas > > My system (Debian Sarge): > > platform i386-pc-linux-gnu > arch i386 > os linux-gnu > system i386, linux-gnu > status > major 2 > minor 2.0 > year 2005 > month 10 > day 06 > svn rev 35749 > language R > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
