[Rd] Is rcompgen still recommended?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

>From NEWS

     o	Command-line completion has been moved from package 'rcompgen'
 	to package 'utils': the former no longer exists as a separate
 	package in the R distribution.

It was always intended that it be merged into utils when finished and 
stable (and it helps that Deepayan in a member of R-core now).

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, James MacDonald wrote:

> I just built R-devel from source on OS X (Tiger), using the subversion
> sources. Running ./tools/rsync-recommended didn't download rcompgen. I
> checked
>
> http://cran.r-project/src/contrib/2.7.0/Recommended
>
> and indeed, this package is not there. If I try to install using
> install.packages I get
>
> > install.packages("rcompgen", type="source")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/rcompgen_0.1-17.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 29240 bytes (28 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 28 Kb
>
> * Installing *source* package 'rcompgen' ...
> Error: Invalid DESCRIPTION file
>
> Invalid Priority field.
> Packages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must
> already be known to R.
>
> See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R
> packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
> Execution halted
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed
> ** Removing '/Users/jmacdon/R-devel/library/rcompgen'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	/private/tmp/Rtmpb0Refs/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("rcompgen", type = "source") :
>   installation of package 'rcompgen' had non-zero exit status
>
>
> I assume I am missing something obvious, but don't know what it is. Any
> pointers?
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-02-18 r44516)
> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tcltk_2.7.0 tools_2.7.0
> --
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