[Rd] Wrongly checked MD5 checksums in R 3.2.0's windows binary

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Mon May 11 15:18:16 CEST 2015


On 11/05/2015 8:35 AM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Thank you Duncan, Peter and Martin for the responses.
>
> Just to mention that the code is based on tools::md5sum, and the issue 
> can be reproduced (in Windows) using:
>
> if(!require(installr)) install.packages("installr")
> installr::checkMD5sums2(dir=R.home())
>
I think you didn't understand my post.  It's a bug in your code: you 
need to compare the md5sum value to the ones I mentioned, not just to 
the one listed in the MD5 file.

Duncan Murdoch



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