[R] Package parallel missing from CRAN_package_db

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Luís,

The parallel package is built-in, and so is not distributed via cran.
You'll see the same thing for all the built in packages, e.g.,

> pdb[pdb$Package=="stats",]["Package"]
[1] Package
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

> pdb[pdb$Package=="splines",]["Package"]
[1] Package
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

> pdb[pdb$Package=="tools",]["Package"]
[1] Package
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)


--Ista

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Luí­s Moreira de Sousa via R-help
<r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database:
>
>> pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db()
>> pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"]
> [1] Package
> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
> Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Luís
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