[Rd] CRAN binary, but no source

[John McKown]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> this is a CRAN question, so I am sorry if this is not the appropriate forum.
>
> I noticed that there is at least one CRAN package that has a binary (OSX
> Mavericks) for a version, that does not have any source package on CRAN. Or
> at least I am unable to locate it. The package is Rglpk:
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rglpk/index.html

I went there and say a source package:

<quote>

Downloads:

Reference manual:Rglpk.pdf
Package source:Rglpk_0.6-0.tar.gz  <<<!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOURCE !!!!!!!!!!!>>>
Windows binaries:r-devel: Rglpk_0.6-0.zip, r-release: Rglpk_0.6-0.zip,
r-oldrel: Rglpk_0.6-0.zip
OS X Snow Leopard binaries:r-release: Rglpk_0.6-0.tgz, r-oldrel: Rglpk_0.6-0.tgz
OS X Mavericks binaries:r-release: Rglpk_0.5-2.tgz
Old sources:Rglpk archive
</quote>

Or: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Rglpk_0.6-0.tar.gz

>
> It offers a binary for 0.5-2, but there is no 0.5-2 source package
> anywhere. Is this simply a mistake, or it is OK to have binary-only
> packages on CRAN?
>
> Thanks much, Best,
> Gabor
>
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