[R] [R-Forge] R 2.13.1 can't find package binaries on R-Forge

[Stefan Theussl]

Dear all,

this must have been a temporary problem. In this case I assume that the 
build cycle did not finish in time, i.e., binaries were synced to the 
staging area although not all were built.

best,
stefan


On 07/31/2011 05:52 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Michael Friendly wrote:
>
>    
>> [Env: Win XP]
>> I've just upgraded from R 2.12.2 to R 2.13.1.  As part of my upgrade
>> process, I typically install some in-development
>> packages from R-Forge that are not on cran.  But for the first time,
>> it
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> e.g.,
>>      
>>> install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>>        
>> trying URL
>> 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
>> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>    cannot open URL
>> 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>    cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
>> available,  :
>>    download of package 'p3d' failed
>>
>> The list of packages I install this way is:
>>
>> special<- c("p3d", "patchDVI", "spacemakeR", "spida")
>> install.packages(special,repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>
>>
>> Is this just an R-Forge problem?
>>      
> I'm not informed about the workings of r-forge, but did you notice
> that there were no packages in that bin/windows directory whose
> alphabetical collation would be after lowercase "i". That seems to
> suggest some sort of system error encountered before the next package
> after "ipreds" was completed.
>
> On the project page the binaries for windows are listed as "offline".
>
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=431
>
> I don't see any C modules in the source. Have you tried installing
> from source?
>
>