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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On October 11, 2014 11:12:40 PM PDT, Marc Girondot <marc_...@yahoo.fr> wrote: >I use R-devel 3.2 in order to check "as cran" packages that I develop. >To maintain my package uptodate, I cannot use the update.packages() >directly because the packages are not still compiled for version 3.2. >Then I use: >update.packages(contriburl = contrib.url(repos=options("repos")$repos, >type="source")) > >But at the time of installation, I get an error, for example: > > update.packages(contriburl = >contrib.url(repos=options("repos")$repos, type="source")) >nlme : > Version 3.1-117 installed in >/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library > Version 3.1-118 available at http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib >Update (y/N/c)? y >essai de l'URL 'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tgz' >Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : > impossible d'ouvrir l'URL >'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tgz' >De plus : Warning message: >In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : > ouverture impossible : le statut HTTP était '404 Not Found' >Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = >available, : > le téléchargement du package ‘nlme’ a échoué > >When I use : >install.packages("nlme", type="source") >essai de l'URL 'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tar.gz' >Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 759483 bytes (741 Kb) >URL ouverte >================================================== >downloaded 741 Kb > >It works well. > >It seems at .tgz is not available in CRAN mirror. It is normal ? >Is it a way to force .tar.gz to be used ? > >Thanks > >Marc Girondot > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.