[Rd] R-3.1.0 OSX Snow Leopard installs old binary

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 17, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All, I am not sure why this happens, but apparently an old binary is
> > installed by default. Downloading and installing the new binary by hand
> > works fine.
> >
> 
> I think you may be misinterpreting - the is no binary for igraph 0.7 because it fails make check, so I don't see how "Downloading and installing the new binary by hand works fine." can be true.
> 
> What is the tgz linked from here, then?
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/igraph/index.html
> 

That is the 3.0 package. Sorry, my bad, the symlinks have not been switched from prerelease to release - my bad, now fixed.

Cheers,
Simon



> Gabor
>  
> The *source* is available so you can compile it from sources, but that's different that what you asked for which was to install the *binary*.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> > Is this the intended behavior? If yes, may I ask what is the reason for it?
> > Thanks, Gabor
> >
> >> install.packages("igraph")
> >
> >  There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the
> >  source version is later:
> >        binary source
> > igraph 0.6.5-2  0.7.0
> >
> > trying URL '
> > http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1/igraph_0.6.5-2.tgz'
> > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 4466270 bytes (4.3 Mb)
> > opened URL
> > ==================================================
> > downloaded 4.3 Mb
> >
> >
> > The downloaded binary packages are in
> > /var/folders/ws/7rmdm_cn2pd8l1c3lqyycv0c0000gn/T//RtmpJiLDYF/downloaded_packages
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_3.1.0
> >
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