Is the following intentional or something that has been overlooked? [HB-X201]{hb}: R --vanilla
R Under development (unstable) (2016-05-13 r70616) -- "Unsuffered Consequences" Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) [...] ## Note that "source" is the built-in default > getOption("pkgType") [1] "source" ## Trying with 'both' > install.packages("MASS", type="both") Installing package into 'C:/Users/hb/R/win-library/3.4' (as 'lib' is unspecified) Error in install.packages("MASS") : type == "both" can only be used on Windows or a CRAN build for Mac OS X ## But 'win.binary' works > install.packages("MASS", type="win.binary") Installing package into 'C:/Users/hb/R/win-library/3.4' (as 'lib' is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/MASS_7.3-45.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 1088567 bytes (1.0 MB) downloaded 1.0 MB package 'MASS' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2016-05-13 r70616) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base /Henrik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel