[Rd] a side note to the Rcmdr issue

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, John Fox wrote:

> Dear Erin,
>
> Unlike in previous version of R for Windows, the package list is
> alphabetized with uppercase letters preceding lowercase letters. Thus look
> under uppercase "R" and then lowercase "c".

Actually, that is not the case: the list is in whatever order the 
repositories provide, ordered by repository, and in previous versions 
of R it was sorted in the locale (which as you are both most likely in 
a Windows American English locale, would sort the way John describes).

It's a somewhat accidental result of removing support for bundles that 
the list was no longer sorted, and I'll add the sort back.

>
> Regards,
> John
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Senator William McMaster
>  Professor of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org]
> On
>> Behalf Of Hodgess, Erin
>> Sent: April-25-10 2:56 PM
>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>> Subject: [Rd] a side note to the Rcmdr issue
>>
>> Hi again.
>>
>> On Windows, when I try to use the "install packages" from the menu, there
> is
>> no Rcmdr and no RcmdrPlugins to be seen.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Erin
>>
>>
>> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>> University of Houston - Downtown
>> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>>
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