If this explanation is correct (I haven't attempted to verify) then try adding
type='source'
to the invocation of install.packages().
-Don
At 8:12 PM -0700 7/18/06, Seth Falcon wrote:
>Herve Pages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know why, on MacOS X, install.packages() is issuing this
>> warning:
>>
>> number of rows of result
>> is not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: cbind(1, res0,
>> Repository = repos)
>>
>> when it's given a repos vector of length >= 4?
>
>Actually, I think this occurs when a repository doesn't have any OSX
>packages.
In binary format, that is.
> The lindsey repository has no OSX packages AFAIK. You can
>reproduce the warning using repos=repos[c(1, 5)].
>
>The warning comes from available.packages (packages.R:67).
>
>I suspect something like the following would be a reasonable fix:
>
>--- a/src/library/utils/R/packages.R
>+++ b/src/library/utils/R/packages.R
>@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ available.packages <-
> on.exit()
> } # end of download vs cached
> } # end of localcran vs online
>- res0 <- cbind(res0, Repository = repos)
>- res <- rbind(res, res0)
>+ if(length(res0)) {
>+ res0 <- cbind(res0, Repository = repos)
>+ res <- rbind(res, res0)
>+ }
> }
>
>I'm pretty sure this would come up for other platforms, it is just
>more common for CRAN-style repositories to not have any OS X binaries
>available.
>
>Best,
>
>+ seth
>
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