[R] Update package dor r-devlop

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 12/10/2014 07:25, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> Off topic. See the Posting Guide, which indicates that development questions belong on R-devel.

And questions about Mac-specific distributions of R on R-sig-mac.

But note that the best way to select source packages is

options(pkgType = "source")

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> On October 11, 2014 11:12:40 PM PDT, Marc Girondot <marc_grt at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> I use R-devel 3.2 in order to check "as cran" packages that I develop.
>> To maintain my package uptodate, I cannot use the update.packages()
>> directly because the packages are not still compiled for version 3.2.
>> Then I use:
>> update.packages(contriburl = contrib.url(repos=options("repos")$repos,
>> type="source"))
>>
>> But at the time of installation, I get an error, for example:
>>> update.packages(contriburl =
>> contrib.url(repos=options("repos")$repos, type="source"))
>> nlme :
>>   Version 3.1-117 installed in
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library
>>   Version 3.1-118 available at http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib
>> Update (y/N/c)?  y
>> essai de l'URL 'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tgz'
>> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>    impossible d'ouvrir l'URL
>> 'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tgz'
>> De plus : Warning message:
>> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>>    ouverture impossible : le statut HTTP était '404 Not Found'
>> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
>> available,  :
>>    le téléchargement du package ‘nlme’ a échoué
>>
>> When I use :
>> install.packages("nlme", type="source")
>> essai de l'URL 'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 759483 bytes (741 Kb)
>> URL ouverte
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 741 Kb
>>
>> It works well.
>>
>> It seems at .tgz is not available in CRAN mirror. It is normal ?
>> Is it a way to force .tar.gz to be used ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marc Girondot
>>
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