On Mar 17, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 17/03/2012 11:27, Berend Hasselman wrote:
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 ).
Yes, I updated PACKAGES[.gz] on the CRAN master this morning. There
is clearly a problem mirroring to CRAN and I have alerted the
relevant people. Hopefully mirroring will not wipe out the files I
copied over without putting later ones in their place.
In case anyone actually needs to use the Package Installer while this
get investigated, I see that the CRAN repo at "the Hutch" still is in
a state where it will populate the binaries list.
http://cran.fhcrc.org
Neither the AT&T, the CMU, nor the ETH CRAN repos will do so as of 1PM
US Eastern time.
--
David
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
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