[Rd] getOption("repositories")

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeff Gentry wrote:

> 
> Out of curiosity, what happened to this?
> 
> With 1.8.1 it returns:
> > getOption("repositories")
>                                      CRAN 
>   "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib" 
>                                      BIOC 
> "http://www.bioconductor.org/src/contrib" 
> 
> With R-devel it returns:
> > getOption("repositories")
> NULL
> 
> It appears to have been taken out when the changes were committed for the
> base package split, from /src/library/profile/Rprofile.unix and
> Rprofile.windows but I didn't see any mention of this in NEWS. 

It isn't needed to be set any more by default: it merely duplicated the
information in options CRAN and BIOC.

Rather, it seems to have been *added* without being mentioned in NEWS, and
not to be documented in ?options.  It wasn't set correctly on Windows for
a long time (which might have been noticed if it had been documented).

BDR

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