[Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows

[John Fox]

Dear Dan and Henrik,

Yes -- thanks. I discovered that earlier today.

Best,
 John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dan
> Tenenbaum
> Sent: January-27-15 1:25 PM
> To: Henrik Bengtsson
> Cc: John Fox; R-devel
> Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on
> Windows
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> > To: "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
> > Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:15:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on
> 	Windows
> >
> > It works again using:
> >
> > % R --version
> > R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-26 r67627) -- "Unsuffered
> > Consequences"
> > Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> >
> 
> Indeed. I've closed PR#16172.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> > /Henrik
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:54 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I've noticed the following problem for the past several days:
> > >
> > > ---------------- snip ----------------
> > > > update.packages(ask=FALSE)
> > >
> > > . . .
> > >
> > > trying URL
> > > 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'
> > > Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
> > >   cannot open URL
> > > 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'
> > > In addition: Warning message:
> > > In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
> > >   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> > > Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> > > available,
> > > :
> > >   download of package 'zoo' failed
> > >
> > > ---------------- snip ----------------
> > >
> > > Apparently, the subdirectory for the version number (/3.2) is
> > > missing from the URL. OTOH, install.packages() works fine:
> > >
> > > ---------------- snip ----------------
> > >
> > > > install.packages("zoo")
> > > trying URL
> > >
'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/zoo_1.7-11.zip'
> > > Content type 'application/zip' length 878614 bytes (858 KB) opened
> > > URL downloaded 858 KB
> > >
> > > package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> > >
> > > The downloaded binary packages are in
> > >         C:\Users\John
> > >         Fox\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuKqvB0\downloaded_packages
> > >
> > > ---------------- snip ----------------
> > >
> > > Session info:
> > >
> > > ---------------- snip ----------------
> > >
> > > > sessionInfo()
> > > R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-25 r67615)
> > > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7
> > > x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
> > >
> > > locale:
> > > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3]
> > > LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5]
> > > LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
> > >
> > > attached base packages:
> > > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> > >   base
> > >
> > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > > [1] tools_3.2.0
> > >
> > > ---------------- snip ----------------
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >  John
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > John Fox, Professor
> > > McMaster University
> > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> > > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> > >
> > >
> > >
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