On 16/03/2012 23:21, Simon Urbanek wrote:
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...
I've manually updated the index files on CRAN, so when this propagates
the packages should be seen again. Also asked CRAN to take a look at
their mirroring scripts.
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
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