[R-pkg-devel] uuid 1.1-0 binary not available for Windows?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 21.04.2022 20:52, Kevin Ushey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like binaries for uuid 1.1-0 are not available for R 4.1 on
> Windows. However, available.packages() reports that it is available:
> 
>> options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cran.r-project.org"))
>> db <- available.packages(type = "binary")
>> str(as.list(db["uuid", ]))
> List of 17
>   $ Package              : chr "uuid"
>   $ Version              : chr "1.1-0"
>   $ Priority             : chr NA
>   $ Depends              : chr "R (>= 2.9.0)"
>   $ Imports              : chr NA
>   $ LinkingTo            : chr NA
>   $ Suggests             : chr NA
>   $ Enhances             : chr NA
>   $ License              : chr "MIT + file LICENSE"
>   $ License_is_FOSS      : chr NA
>   $ License_restricts_use: chr NA
>   $ OS_type              : chr NA
>   $ Archs                : chr "i386, x64"
>   $ MD5sum               : chr NA
>   $ NeedsCompilation     : chr NA
>   $ File                 : chr NA
>   $ Repository           : chr
> "https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1"
>> install.packages("uuid", type = "both")
> 
> And so this implies that attempts to install 'uuid' will by default
> fail, as type = "both" will attempt to select the non-existent binary:
> 
>> install.packages("uuid", type = "both")
> Installing package into ‘C:/Users/kevin/r/win-library/4.1’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip'
> Warning in install.packages :
>    cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip':
> HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>    cannot open URL
> 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip'
> Warning in install.packages :
>    download of package ‘uuid’ failed
> 
> Are there plans to publish a binary version of this version of uuid
> for Windows, or does the PACKAGES database need to be updated on CRAN?
> 
> For what it's worth, https://cran.r-project.org/package=uuid does
> indicate that the Windows binary for r-release is not available, but
> the link points to a non-existent ReadMe file.

Indeed, both the Readme and the binary vesion should be there and 
apparently a local automated rsync call on my side failed somehow.

Now everything is in order to be synced by the CRAN master again and 
should be there within less than 24 hours.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
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