[Rd] Pb with contrib.url() (PR#9131)

[Simon Urbanek]

Herve,

On Aug 7, 2006, at 11:34 AM, hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:

> Recently I needed to download a few R packages for Unix, Windows  
> and Mac OS X. The idea was to put them all together on a USB key in  
> order to be able to install them on systems without network  
> connection.
>
> It worked fine for the "src" and "win.binary" packages but I had  
> the following problems with the "mac.binary" packages:
>
>> download.packages("XML", destdir=".", type="mac.binary")
>     Warning: unable to access index for repository
>     http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/macosx/x86_64/contrib/2.3

^^ we don't build binaries for x86_64 architecture, so you cannot use  
that (Apple didn't release Leopard yet, so there is no 64-bit Intel  
binaries around anyway). The only architectures supported by our  
binaries are powerpc, i686 and universal.

Cheers,
Simon