[R] Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Roger D. Peng wrote:
>
>> What happens if you don't set the 'CRAN' option via 'options()' first and 
>> just run 'install.packages()'?
>
> Should be the same as long as no CRAN mirror has been choosen and X11 is not 
> accessible (see my other message). The code needs to be a bit more defensive 
> here - or present a better error message.

It was a bug, already (by last Friday) corrected in R-patched:

     o   Typo in menu(graphics=TRUE) meant it failed on Unix if tcltk
         was not available.

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