On 17-03-2012, at 12:06, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >> >> On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>> On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote: >>>> Federico Calboli<f.calboli<at> imperial.ac.uk> writes: >>>>> Apologies, I forgot to say, I have R 2.14.2, latest 64-bit GUI >>>> from http://r.research.att.com/, OS 10.7.3 >>>>>> I just noticed the following weird issue. If I go to the menu >>>> 'Packages and Data', select 'Package >>>>> Installer' the installer goes up, but when I tell it to give the >>>> list of binaries available (I like to keep up >>>>> to date, and check every couple of days) the list comes up empty. >>>> The list for CRAN sources, and for >>>>> Bioconductor binaries work fine. >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried to change the mirror, but it does not make a difference. >>>>>> >>>>>> Am I the only one with the problem? what's going on? >>>> >>>> I second this observation. >>> >>> What is going on is that >>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/ has an empty >>> PACKAGES file. Given that it hadn't been updated for a couple of weeks on >>> Weds, you may just need to be patient. But in any case, only Simon can fix >>> this as only he has sufficient access to the package builder. So reporting >>> to Simon is always going to be the most effective way forward for similar >>> problems. >>> >> >> Hmm... it's not empty on the master machine -- use http://r.research.att.com >> as the mirror - it should work ... >> > > Could PACKAGES file be in some damaged state that R cannot process? When I > change the repository to that value in the R64 GUI and try to see either > either the binary versions or the source versions of contributed packages in > the Package Installer I get these warnings at the console: > > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14 > > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://r.research.att.com/src/contrib > > I am able to see the .tgz packages at > http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/ with Firefox. > > I am able to get a list of source packages (but not binary) to display in the > Package Installer if I use a different repository. And I am able to install > binary packages with ... for example: > > install.packages("actuar", repo="http://r.research.att.com";, > type="mac.binary.leopard") > > (Which updated an existing version to the current version.) > > Admittedly I am running a somewhat behind the times version, but this is > completely different behavior than it has exhibited up to a few days ago. >
I updated binary packages this morning (17 March 2012 approx. 9:00 CET) without any problem at all from http://cran.r-project.org. Yesterday no update appeared possible (Get List couldn't retrieve the list of packages ). Using R 2.14.2. Berend R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
