[Rd] MacOS X: update.packages(type="mac.binary") fails (PR#7836)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jari Oksanen wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:01 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>>
>> This should not be required. What does .Platform say?
>>
> I couldn't let it be:
>
>> str(.Platform)
> List of 6
> $ OS.type   : chr "unix"
> $ file.sep  : chr "/"
> $ dynlib.ext: chr ".so"
> $ GUI       : chr "AQUA"
> $ endian    : chr "big"
> $ pkgType   : chr "source"

Thanks, that is the bit which is incorrect.  I now see the problem and 
have fixed it.

>> R.version.string
> [1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18"
>
> (After removing R.app and R.framework, re-installing from R-2.1.0.dmg,
> logging out and in -- the last step helped.)
>
> As this is "CRAN Mac OS X build" this seems to be in conflict with
> documentation of 'options' "pkgType".
>
> PS.
>
> download.packages("AMORE", type="source", destdir="/tmp")
>
> works in MacOS X (or this one I have here) with any 'type'.

Good!

> cheers, jari oksanen
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>

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