Re: [R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

2010-09-18 Thread David Winsemius
get it from wherever that versions resides. -- David. B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: Erik Iverson To: Stephen Liu Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Sat, September 18, 2010 12:01:47 PM Subject: Re: [R] How to check the available of a package on R repo What are you trying to

Re: [R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Erik, I try to find out whether Emacs/ESS is available on R repo. What is its versiohn? B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: Erik Iverson To: Stephen Liu Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Sat, September 18, 2010 12:01:47 PM Subject: Re: [R] How to check the available of a

Re: [R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

2010-09-17 Thread Erik Iverson
What are you trying to do? Did you look at the arguments for the first argument of ?available.packages ? What did you expect "emacs" to do? On 09/17/2010 10:20 PM, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Debian 504 64-bit What is the correct syntax to check the available of a package on R repo? avai

[R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Debian 504 64-bit What is the correct syntax to check the available of a package on R repo? > available.packages("emacs", "OS_type=linux") Warning: unable to access index for repository emacs Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances OS_type License