[R] Package parallel missing from CRAN_package_db

[Luí­s Moreira de Sousa]

Thank you Ista and Duncan for the swift replies.

Regards.

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Luís

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On 9 May 2018 4:34 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn using gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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