Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The default works -- you have set options("repos") somewhere.
> You can use
>
> options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.<insert>.r-project.org"))
It works with .us. as <insert>. Thanks> options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org";)) > options("repos") $repos CRAN "http://cran.us.r-project.org"; Available packages are listed in R.app GUI and install.packages() command pops up a window with the available packages as well. What I don't know is how... $repos CRAN "http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7"; ...reached my installation. Must the 2.7.0 beta installer be blamed for that? > > *However*, I noticed last night that the 2.7 MacOS binary packages on > CRAN are way out of date (late Nov 2007), which is worrying when we > are supposed to be beta-testing (and the Windows equivalent has been > running for a month now). > > I suggest that until that is updated you use > > install.packages("pkgname", type="source") > > which has worked for me. OK. I'll do that. Please, is there any alert system to be aware of updates other than "go and see"? Thanks. > > How? For the command line, install.packages() or the the R.app GUI you > did not mention? > Both. Thank you very much, Ricardo -- Ricardo RodrÃguez Your XEN ICT Team _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
