[Rd] 1.9 contrib archive for win needed

[Uwe Ligges]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:06:06AM -0400, Vincent Carey wrote:
> 
>>in 1.9 for windows,
>>contrib.url(getOption("CRAN"))
>>names a non-existent resource; the
>>contrib/1.9 directory needs to be
>>made and populated on CRAN
> 
> 
> Err -- Knowing no better way to see how $CRAN/src/contrib changes, I keep a
> browser window on http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/?M=D -- and it
> started to show it yesterday.  In effect this URL works just fine:
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/1.9.0/ 

Vincent is talking about the directory for the binary packages for 
*Windows*. I have just linked 1.9 to 1.8 - it will show up on CRAN 
master tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder!

Uwe



> Were you pointing to a mirror that's lagging behind?
> 
> Dirk
>