Hi Luís, The parallel package is built-in, and so is not distributed via cran. You'll see the same thing for all the built in packages, e.g.,
> pdb[pdb$Package=="stats",]["Package"] [1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > pdb[pdb$Package=="splines",]["Package"] [1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > pdb[pdb$Package=="tools",]["Package"] [1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) --Ista On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Luís Moreira de Sousa via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head > versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, > is missing from the database: > >> pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() >> pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"] > [1] Package > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason > for this package to be missing from the database? > > Thank you. > > -- > Luís > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.