[R] outdated PACKAGES in CRAN

[Friedrich Leisch]

>>>>> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:02:09 +0100,
>>>>> Herve Dreau (HD) wrote:

HD> I just installed the new R 0.65.1
HD> The fonctionnality to upgrade and install packages is a very great idea.

HD> But the file PACKAGES at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at:80/R/src/contrib/
HD> is outdated : 3 of the 4 packages i try to install failed with a 404 not found :
HD> the package version  are newer than the entry in the PACKAGES file :
HD> survival4 survival4_1.4-0.tar.gz Version: 1.1-0
HD> rpart rpart_1.0-7.tar.gz  Version: 1.0-6

HD> But it's really a great idea.
HD> Another remark, the package installed  with R core, and old packages have no
HD> versionning number :

HD> installed.packages()
HD>  [1,] "addreg"    "/usr/local/lib/R/library" "NA"   
HD>  [2,] "base"      "/usr/local/lib/R/library" "NA"   
HD>  [3,] "bootstrap" "/usr/local/lib/R/library" "NA" 
HD> ...


OK, I have tried to fix all bugs in the CRAN PACKAGE file, the
DESCRIPTIONs of the following packages have been fixed:

NISTnls
coda
mclust
rpart
splines
survival4

Note that I can't do easily something on old packages installed on
your system because they simply contain no version information (but
after one manual update this should be gone). Many users have private
packages without a formal DESCRIPTION file and IMO this is OK.

Regarding core packages, i.e., packages that come with the R sources:
I will introduce some check of the version of the running R process
against CRAN and print some message accordingly.


Best,
Fritz
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