> -Original Message-
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 06 November 2006 11:42
> To: Keith Ponting
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] CRAN task views work only once per session (PR#9330)
>
> I think the following item in N
I think the following item in NEWS for R-patched may be relevant:
o load()ing from a connection had a logic bug in when it closed
the connection. (PR#9271)
so please try R-patched.
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Keith Ponting wrote:
> Thankyou to those who have replied to this thread.
>
>
Thankyou to those who have replied to this thread.
I have now reproduced similar effects in a way which does not directly
involve CRAN task views. (I have also reproduced the original problem on
a different machine within
our site and using a different mirror.)
The following sequence of commands
They run without problem and are identical on my XP machine too:
> library(ctv)
> x <- available.views(repos = "http://CRAN.uk.R-project.org";)
> y <- available.views(repos = "http://CRAN.uk.R-project.org";)
> identical(x,y)
[1] TRUE
> R.version.string # XP
[1] "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-2
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Achim Zeileis wrote:
> One comment - taken from the FAQ - in advance:
> Bug reports on contributed packages should be sent first to the package
> maintainer, and only submitted to the R-bugs repository by package
> maintainers, mentioning the package in the subject line.
>
>
One comment - taken from the FAQ - in advance:
Bug reports on contributed packages should be sent first to the package
maintainer, and only submitted to the R-bugs repository by package
maintainers, mentioning the package in the subject line.
In this case, posting to R-devel (but not R-bugs)
Cran task views seems to be a "once-per-session" process -- the first
attempt to access views in a (RGui for Windows) session works, but
subsequent attempts fail. There is a noticeably long pause before
the failing call returns.
Example session with two calls to "available.views" follows, but sim
