[Rd] OmegaHat and install packages menu

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/16/2006 11:09 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Windows, if I set the repositories to only Omegahat using
> the
> 
>    Packages | Select repositories
> 
> menu and then bring up the install packages menu:
> 
>    Packages | Install packages
> 
> I find that several packages are listed twice.  Why is that?
> 
> I am using Windows XP:
> 
> "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-07 r39598)"

Run available.packages() (which is what you're seeing in the menu). 
There are multiple versions of some packages available.

It would be nice if the list presented from the menu were more 
informative; I think the Mac GUI does a good job of this. Nice, but a 
fair bit of work, I think.

Duncan Murdoch