[Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages() badly?

[A.J. Rossini]

Also, I don't know what this has to do with BioC.  This is core R, so
pertinent to this list.  Otherwise, perhaps it should be taken out?

On 10/4/05, A.J. Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I expect "new.packages()" to not report on packages which I've
> installed, as per documentation.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
> On 10/4/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hard to know what you expect here.  There is no recent change that I can
> > see.
> >
> > I removed ash and then installed it with version.  new.packages() showed
> > it as new in both 2.1.1 and 2.2.0-beta.
> >
> > The issue is that installed.packages() has never been taught about
> > versioned installs, and you might like to take that up with your BioC
> > colleagues who added the idea.
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> >
> > > In Rdevel, SVN version built this morning around 10am central european
> > > time, it looks like
> > >
> > >   install.packages(new.packages(),installWithVers=TRUE)
> > >
> > > seem to ignore the version information -- that is, it reinstalls
> > > current versions of packages.
> >
> > I believe it always did: it certainly does in 2.1.1 for me.
> >
> > > This did not happen before I used "installWithVers=TRUE" option, that is
> > > I could use
> > >
> > >   update.packages()
> > > and
> > >   install.packages(new.packages())
> > >
> > > to keep a current, platform-complete, installed base of CRAN.
> >
> > --
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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> >
>
>
> --
> best,
> -tony
>
> blindglobe at gmail.com
> Muttenz, Switzerland.
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>


--
best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).