Re: [Rd] robustness of install.packages/update.packages (was Re: bug in L-BFGS-B? (PR#8099))

2005-08-29 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, BDR == Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BDR We've never encountered this lying mirror problem. Indeed, that mirror is a worry, I guess that is the reason why it is not on the official mirror list. We had the problem with install.packages/update.packages under linux

Re: [Rd] robustness of install.packages/update.packages (was Re: bug in L-BFGS-B? (PR#8099))

2005-08-29 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, BDR == Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, update.packages() wanted to update quite a few packages besides MASS (the other packages in the VR bundle, nlme, lattice c). Once it failed on MASS, it terminated with an error and did not update any