On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote: >> Federico Calboli<f.calboli<at> imperial.ac.uk> writes: >>> Apologies, I forgot to say, I have R 2.14.2, latest 64-bit GUI >> from http://r.research.att.com/, OS 10.7.3 >>>> I just noticed the following weird issue. If I go to the menu >> 'Packages and Data', select 'Package >>> Installer' the installer goes up, but when I tell it to give the >> list of binaries available (I like to keep up >>> to date, and check every couple of days) the list comes up empty. >> The list for CRAN sources, and for >>> Bioconductor binaries work fine. >>>> >>>> I tried to change the mirror, but it does not make a difference. >>>> >>>> Am I the only one with the problem? what's going on? >> >> I second this observation. > > What is going on is that > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/ has an empty > PACKAGES file. Given that it hadn't been updated for a couple of weeks on > Weds, you may just need to be patient. But in any case, only Simon can fix > this as only he has sufficient access to the package builder. So reporting to > Simon is always going to be the most effective way forward for similar > problems. >
Hmm... it's not empty on the master machine -- use http://r.research.att.com as the mirror - it should work ... Few days ago the build machine has lost network connectivity due to a faulty ethernet cable, so maybe it has thrown off mirroring, that's the closest I can get to an explanation... > Perhaps this can encourage people to test 2.15.0 beta? Its binary package > repository does have a populated PACKAGES file. > Yes, we can't stress is often enough that we need people to test betas, reporting bugs after the release is too late! Thanks, Simon >> >> >>>> -- >>>> Federico C. F. Calboli >>>> Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research >>>> Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus >>>> Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG >>>> >>>> Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 >>>> >>>> f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk >>>> f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
