[R] contriburl argument to install.packages

[John Fox]

Dear Duncan,

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:11:53 -0400
 Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:05:43 -0400, "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
> wrote :
> 
> >	> CRAN.packages(contriburl="file:c:/temp")
> >	Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> >	In addition: Warning message: 
> >	cannot open file `c:/temp/PACKAGES' 
> >
> >I *do* have a directory c:\temp\PACKAGES
> 
> Is that a typo?  PACKAGES is a file, not a directory.  The packages
> should be sitting in c:\temp, not in c:\temp\PACKAGES.
> 

It's not a typo, but a misunderstanding on my part (and a failure to
read your last message carefully enough). 

Thanks,
 John

> Duncan
> 
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John Fox
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