[R-sig-hpc] What happened to the vignette of 'parallel'?

[Marius Hofert]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:

> On 15 April 2012 at 02:03, Marius Hofert wrote:
> | I am looking for the latest version of the vignette of 'parallel'. I can't find
> | it (not on CRAN, not via vignette()). How can I obtain it?
>
> What operating system?  

Mac OS X 10.7.3

>
>
> The Debian / Ubuntu binary packages have it in both the source package and
> the binary:
>
> edd at max:~$ dpkg -L r-base-core | grep parallel.pdf
> /usr/lib/R/library/parallel/doc/parallel.pdf

Ah... I checked my library and saw that 'parallel' did not exist there. Although
it comes natively with R (afaik), I tried to install it to see if I have the
same subfolder with the vignette:

,----
| install.packages("parallel", type="source")
| Installing package(s) into ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/library’
| (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
| Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.ch.r-project.org/src/contrib
| Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.bioconductor.org/src/contrib
| Warning message:
| package ‘parallel’ is not available (for R version 2.15.0) 
| > 
`----

When will 'parallel' be available for 2.15? 


> 
> edd at max:~$
>
> I'll shoot a copy off-list.
>
> Dirk