[Rd] packages built against upcoming releases

[Jan Theodore Galkowski]

It is true RHmm is *not* available in the public central repositories. 
I think it's in Bioconductor. That said, the "installation process" was
the usual one from the GUI drop down, after electing repositories.  What
that does behind the scenes is something I do not know, but I don't see
how I could know. 

Just letting somebody know.  If you don't want to use the information,
that's cool with me.

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:04 +0100, "Uwe Ligges"
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17.01.2010 16:33, Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote:
> > I admire package-builders being proactive and having their facilities
> > ready for upcoming  R releases.  However, if the publicly released
> > version of R is 2.10.1 and a package is built for R 2.11.0, users get
> > the embarrassing notice about a disconnect,
> 
> What a disconnect?
> 
> 
> > and cannot do much about it.
> 
> They should install the version that is intended for R-2.10.x releases, 
> not the one for the development version.
> The RHmm version in the 2.10 repository in CRAN has
> 
> Built: R 2.10.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2010-01-03 15:59:39 UTC; windows
> 
> 
> hence built with R-2.10.x as required.
> 
> 
> 
> > If it is tedious to roll out a new package on time, perhaps there's a
> > possibility for automation here.
> 
> 
> It is automated and we are currently building for R-2.9.x, R-2.10.x and 
> R-devel (the latter in 32-bit and 64-bit), and you have just to say 
> install.packages() and your R wil grab the right version. I suspect you 
> downloaded something manually from the wrong repository.
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Thanks.  I encountered this yesterday with RHmm.  I'm running R on
> > WinXP.
> >

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