Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 12.04.2011 17:29, Hadley Wickham wrote: Then, can we have the ERROR message, please? Otherwise the only explanation I can guess is that a mirror grabs the contents of a repository exactly in the second the repository is updated and that is unlikely, particularly if more than one mirror is in

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-12 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Then, can we have the ERROR message, please? > Otherwise the only explanation I can guess is that a mirror grabs the > contents of a repository exactly in the second the repository is updated and > that is unlikely, particularly if more than one mirror is involved. Isn't one possible explanation

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Davis
Uwe, I really do appreciate the help from you and Douglas on resolving this problem. However, I respectfully disagree on a few points: - install.packages() was broken and failing to install successfully. This is why I was tracking down the URL via the CRAN website. - I think it's crazy to have

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Davis
2011/4/12 Uwe Ligges > On 12.04.2011 14:52, Ian Davis wrote: > >> I really do appreciate the help from you and Douglas on resolving this >> problem. However, I respectfully disagree on a few points: >> >> - install.packages() was broken and failing to install successfully. >> > > install.package

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 12.04.2011 17:08, Ian Davis wrote: 2011/4/12 Uwe Ligges mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> On 12.04.2011 14:52, Ian Davis wrote: I really do appreciate the help from you and Douglas on resolving this problem. However, I respectfully disagree on a few poin

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 12.04.2011 14:52, Ian Davis wrote: Uwe, I really do appreciate the help from you and Douglas on resolving this problem. However, I respectfully disagree on a few points: - install.packages() was broken and failing to install successfully. install.packages() works well, it is *not* broke

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 11.04.2011 21:03, Douglas Bates wrote: The first thing to do is try another mirror. The "official" (or as official as we ever get about anything) U.S. mirror is http://cran.us.R-project.org They tend to be very good about updating. Presently the source package for plyr is at version 1.5

Re: [R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
The first thing to do is try another mirror. The "official" (or as official as we ever get about anything) U.S. mirror is http://cran.us.R-project.org They tend to be very good about updating. Presently the source package for plyr is at version 1.5 and the binary versions are both at 1.4.1 On

[R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

2011-04-11 Thread Ian Davis
It looks like there might be some kind of problem with the Plyr-1.4.1 packages pushed to CRAN? The web pages show 1.4.1 as the current version, but trying to fetch the source through the provided link gives a 404: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/web/packages/plyr/index.html $ wget http://lib.sta