[R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Erik,

I try to find out whether Emacs/ESS is available on R repo.  What is its 
versiohn?

B.R.
Stephen L



----- Original Message ----
From: Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Sat, September 18, 2010 12:01:47 PM
Subject: Re: [R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

What are you trying to do?

Did you look at the arguments for
the first argument of ?available.packages ?

What did you expect "emacs" to do?


On 09/17/2010 10:20 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Debian 504 64-bit
>
> What is the correct syntax to check the available of a package on R repo?
>
>> available.packages("emacs", "OS_type=linux")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository emacs
>       Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances
>       OS_type License File Repository
>
>> available.packages("emacs")
> Warning: unable to access index for repository emacs
>       Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances
>       OS_type License File Repository
>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
>
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