Full_Name: Jari Oksanen
Version: R 2.1.0
OS: MacOS 10.3.9
Submission from: (NULL) (130.231.102.145)
For various reasons (which need not be expanded here) I have tried to update my
long neglected R in MacOS X using handy command line tool update.packages()
using readily available binaries of
Binary installs are AFAIK only supported in the GUI, where the default is
as documented. So .install.macbinary() is not loaded except in the GUI.
The reason is that those binaries are tied to that particular build of R,
and will not work with a general build on MacOS X.
I would expect this to
On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Binary installs are AFAIK only supported in the GUI, where the default is
as documented.
A bit more checking show that the documented default is
source except under the CRAN Mac OS X build
and the default is taken from .Platform$pkgType which is
