Message 2 of today: it works now.
After re-installing R.app from the same R-2.1.0.dmg file, and
fixInNamespace'ing(*) install.packages(), I managed to update 23
outdated packages from CRAN binaries for MacOS X. What I did was to:
1. change call to .install.macbinaries() into call to install.binar
2005-05-03.tar.gz source found only one instance of
> > .install.macbinary(): the failed call in
> > R-patched/src/library/utils/R/packages2.R. I couldn't find the definition
> > of the
> > function.
> >
> > Do I really have to use GUI? Uh.
> >
