[Rd] Re: update.packages keeps trying to update gregmisc

[Brian D Ripley]

This is due to the inconsistent way gregmisc has been unbundled.  There
was a gregmisc 2.0-7 containing gplots etc as part of a bundle, and there
are also versions of gplots etc *with the same version number* which are
not part of a bundle.

The only way out I have found is to remove gregmisc and, if necessary, its
former component packages, and then re-install gplots etc.

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> One other point I just noticed.  If I run new.packages() it reports this,
> namely that gregmisc has extra contents of NA.
>
> > np <- new.packages()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Warning messages:
> 1: bundle 'VR' is incompletely installed in: new.packages()
> 2: bundle 'VR' has extra contents 'nnet' in: new.packages()
> 3: bundle 'gregmisc' is incompletely installed in: new.packages()
> 4: bundle 'gregmisc' has extra contents 'NA' in: new.packages()
>
> On 6/6/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I issue the command
> > > update.packages()
> > it wants to update 'gregmisc' but then if I do it again right afterwards it
> > still wants to update 'gregmisc'.  It should have updated everything
> > the first time and should not be trying to update anything the second
> > time.  Any comments?
> >
> > Here is the transcript of a session (R version at end):
> >
> >
> > > update.packages()
> > gregmisc :
> >  Version 2.0.7 installed in C:/PROGRA~1/R/RW2010~1/library
> >  Version 2.0.8 available at http://probability.ca/cran
> > Update (y/N/c)?  y
> > trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/gregmisc_2.0.8.zip'
> > Content type 'application/zip' length 2465 bytes
> > opened URL
> > downloaded 2465 bytes
> >
> > package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >        C:\Documents and Settings\Grothendieck\Local
> > Settings\Temp\Rtmp9430\downloaded_packages
> > updating HTML package descriptions
> > > update.packages()
> > gregmisc :
> >  Version 2.0.7 installed in C:/PROGRA~1/R/RW2010~1/library
> >  Version 2.0.8 available at http://probability.ca/cran
> > Update (y/N/c)?  y
> > trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/gregmisc_2.0.8.zip'
> > Content type 'application/zip' length 2465 bytes
> > opened URL
> > downloaded 2465 bytes
> >
> > package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >        C:\Documents and Settings\Grothendieck\Local
> > Settings\Temp\Rtmp9430\downloaded_packages
> > updating HTML package descriptions
> > > R.version.string # Windows XP
> > [1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-05-14"
> >
>
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