[R] Problem with update.packages on repo with a single package

[Uwe Ligges]

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Is this R-2.9.0?
> If so, please submit to R-bugs so that the bugfix does not get lost.
> Otherwise, please try R-2.9.0 patched and submit a patch against that 
> version.


Whoops, no! Already fixed this morning by Brian Ripley. So, pelase don't 
send!

Thanks again,
Uwe



> Thank you very much!
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> Michael DiPersio wrote:
>> I've set up a CRAN-style repository to distribute a single package.  
>> The repository contains several versions of the package, I was hoping 
>> that update.packages pointed at this repository would grab the highest 
>> version number.  In fact it returns an error:
>>
>> Error in available[, "Bundle"] : incorrect number of dimensions
>>
>> This is because the private function .remove_stale_dups in utils, 
>> which is supposed to return a copy of an available.packages matrix 
>> with no duplicates, does not return a matrix in the case where all 
>> available packages are stale except one.  To fix this I've made the 
>> following simple change to the utils package in my copy of R, but if 
>> I've overlooked something I'd be happy to hear about it:
>>
>> Index: packages.R
>> ===================================================================
>> --- packages.R    (revision 48465)
>> +++ packages.R    (working copy)
>> @@ -869,5 +869,5 @@
>>         stale_dups[i:end_i] <- wh
>>         i <- end_i + 1L
>>     }
>> -    if(length(stale_dups)) ap[-stale_dups, ] else ap
>> +    if(length(stale_dups)) ap[-stale_dups,,drop=FALSE ] else ap
>> }
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael DiPersio
>>
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