On 20 Oct 2010, at 14:48, Denis Chabot wrote: > > I just installed R 2.12 and it seems to me the way progress is reported when > installing packages is different. > > I picked a few packages to install and I selected "install dependencies". R's > spinning wheel spinned endlessly, with no text appearing in the console to > indicate progress. I was used to see progress as each package got loaded on > disk and then installed, but nothing. After a minute, I force-quit R and > relaunched it. Selecting a single package without the option "install > dependencies" worked as usual. In this case, it was doBy, and within seconds > the process was complete. > > I then selected doBy again in the package installer, but this time I selected > "install dependencies". Spinning wheel, no progress in the console. I must > have waited 2-3 minutes and suddenly the console quickly listed all the work > that had been accomplished (it seems many packages needed to be installed, as > this was a brand new R 2.12 install). It seems to me that in the past > (including R 2.11), the console kept us up to date with what was happening. > If this is not just my imagination, the old behavior was preferable.
had the same problem, and I think it is a mirror problem, not an R problem, because after changing the mirror a few times everything started working as expected. F -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
