[R] what folder to run write_PACKAGES in?

[Jeff Newmiller]

I have not done this myself, but reading through your book I see no reference to actual sample file names. I mention this because UNIX-ish operating systems download the tar.gz source archives while Windows works with the zip binary packages, and I can't tell what files you are putting in the repository.
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Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:

>I set up a local repo for testing packages. My packages are not
>showing up from the repository when viewed by Linux clients. I suspect
>this is a web administrator/firewall issue, but it could be I created
>the repo wrongly.  I am supposed to run write_PACKAGES separately in
>each R-version folder. Right?
>
>Maybe other novices can use these scripts, if they are not wrong :)
>
>Here's the file structure. On the file space that the Web server can
>see, I create a folder "/tools/kran" and directories
>
> bin
>    macosx
>         leopard
>              contrib
>                2.13
>                2.14
>                2.15
>
>    windows
>         contrib
>               2.13
>               2.14
>               2.15
>src
>    contrib
>               2.13
>               2.14
>               2.15
>
>That's created by this:
>#############################################
>create_repo_tree <- function(local.repos, rversions){
>
>    folders  <-  c("/bin/windows/contrib",
>"/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib", "/src/contrib")
>    for(dir in folders){
>        dirs <- paste(local.repos, dir, "/", rversions, sep='')
>        lapply(dirs, dir.create, recursive = TRUE, showWarnings = TRUE)
>    }
>}
>
>create_repo_tree("/tools/kran", c(2.13, 2.14, 2.15))
>###########################################
>
>My CRAN mirror is in a sister folder /tools/cran and that works
>properly to be served at the address http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran.
>
>I want our local testing thing to show at similar
>http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran.  Supposing the Apache web server magic
>is done, I *believe* the following should work.
>
>I dropped packages in the right version folders, and I wrote a script
>that goes separately to each version number folder and runs
>write_PACKAGES.
>
>### Researchers can upload
>### packages into the approrpriate folder.
>### Administratively, we schedule this run run every night
>write_PACKAGES_wrapper <- function(local.repos) {
>    require(tools)
>
>    rversions <-  dir(path = paste(local.repos,
>"/bin/windows/contrib", sep=""), full.names = TRUE)
>    for (i in rversions) write_PACKAGES(dir = i, subdirs=TRUE,
>type="win.binary")
>
>#repeat
>    rversions <-  dir(path = paste(local.repos,
>"/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib", sep=""), full.names = TRUE)
>    for (i in rversions) write_PACKAGES(dir = i, subdirs=TRUE,
>type="mac.binary")
>
>    rversions <-  dir(path = paste(local.repos, "/src/contrib",
>sep=""), full.names = TRUE)
>for (i in rversions) write_PACKAGES(dir = i, subdirs=TRUE,
>type="source")
>}
>
>
>write_PACKAGES_wrapper("/tools/kran")
>
>#############################
>
>Right?
>
>After running that, I do see the PACKAGES files appear under the
>version number directories.
>
>However, from the linux clients I see this:
>
>> install.packages("rockchalk", repos="http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran")
>Installing package(s) into
>‘/home/pauljohn/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>Warning: unable to access index for repository
>http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran/src/contrib
>Warning message:
>package ‘rockchalk’ is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
>
>The Web administrator here suggests I've done the write_PACKAGES
>incorrectly because there is no PACKAGES file in
>/tools/kran/src/contrib.  But I do have PACKAGES files in the
>subfolders 2.15.
>
>
>However, on a windows system, it does work.
>
>> install.packages("rockchalk", repos="http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran")
>trying URL
>'http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/rockchalk_1.5.5.06.zip'
>Content type 'application/zip' length 486682 bytes (475 Kb)
>opened URL
>downloaded 475 Kb
>
>package ‘rockchalk’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
>The downloaded binary packages are in
>  C:\Users\pauljohn32\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpq0m3Id\downloaded_packages
>
>The Web admin folks say to me, "if we did it wrong, nothing would
>work. Some does, so it is your fault."
>
>-- 
>Paul E. Johnson
>Professor, Political Science    Assoc. Director
>1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504     Center for Research Methods
>University of Kansas               University of Kansas
>http://pj.freefaculty.org            http://quant.ku.edu
>
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