[R-sig-Debian] Broken R

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 February 2012 at 11:45, Jim Robison-Cox wrote:
| Hi Ed,
| 
|    R 2.14.2 just came out, So I'm guessing that most packages are not 
| yet rebuilt for it.

This is not Windows, so binary packages are not being rebuilt anyway --
install.packages() only looks at src/contrib/.

As R 2.14.2 itself, that actually was uploaded to Debian 'unstable' this
morning as I usually find the time to do so on release day.  

Dirk
 
| You should still be able to load them as in (from terminal prompt)
| 
| wget http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/ctv_0.7-4.tar.gz
| R CMD INSTALL ctv_0.7-4.tar.gz
| 
| Jim Robison-Cox
| 
| On 02/29/2012 11:33 AM, Ed Siefker wrote:
| > Hi, I am running Debian Sid. I am having
| > trouble with the R packages.
| >
| > Executing 'help()' or 'demo()' launches 'most' with no text.
| > 'help.start()' works properly.
| >
| > When I try to install a package, I get the following problem:
| >
| > *********************************************************************
| >> install.packages("ctv")
| > Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
| > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
| > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
| > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
| > Warning: unable to access index for repository
| > http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib
| > Warning message:
| > In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
| >    package ‘ctv’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2)
| > *********************************************************************
| >
| > The system in question has a direct connection to the internet.
| > I can browse to the repository and find the ctv package.
| > The user has read and write permissions on '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
| >
| > I don't know what to do here.  Can someone advise?
| >
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