Thanks, I'll try this.

Denis
Le 2010-10-20 à 09:56, Federico Calboli a écrit :

> On 20 Oct 2010, at 14:48, Denis Chabot wrote:
>> 
>> I just installed R 2.12 and it seems to me the way progress is reported when 
>> installing packages is different. 
>> 
>> I picked a few packages to install and I selected "install dependencies". 
>> R's spinning wheel spinned endlessly, with no text appearing in the console 
>> to indicate progress. I was used to see progress as each package got loaded 
>> on disk and then installed, but nothing. After a minute, I force-quit R and 
>> relaunched it. Selecting a single package without the option "install 
>> dependencies" worked as usual. In this case, it was doBy, and within seconds 
>> the process was complete.
>> 
>> I then selected doBy again in the package installer, but this time I 
>> selected "install dependencies". Spinning wheel, no progress in the console. 
>> I must have waited 2-3 minutes and suddenly the console quickly listed all 
>> the work that had been accomplished (it seems many packages needed to be 
>> installed, as this was a brand new R 2.12 install). It seems to me that in 
>> the past (including R 2.11), the console kept us up to date with what was 
>> happening. If this is not just my imagination, the old behavior was 
>> preferable.
> 
> 
> had the same problem, and I think it is a mirror problem, not an R problem, 
> because after changing the mirror a few times everything started working as 
> expected.
> 
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