[R-SIG-Mac] about reshape 0.7.1 release

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team wrote:

> Simon, colleagues,
>
> I've installed Hadley Wickham's reshape 0.7.1 package in a Windows  
> XP box from http://cran.es.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/ 
> reshape_0.7.1.zip.
>
> WindowsXP installation version
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.0
> year           2006
> month          10
> day            03
> svn rev        39566
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
>
> Then, I've installed it in a OS X 10.4.8 MacBook from http://cran.r- 
> project.org/bin/macosx/i386/contrib/2.3/reshape_0.7.tgz and http:// 
> r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/i386/contrib/2.3/reshape_0.7.tgz
>
> Mac OS X installation version
> platform       i386-apple-darwin8.6.1
> arch           i386
> os             darwin8.6.1
> system         i386, darwin8.6.1
> status
> major          2
> minor          3.1
> year           2006
> month          06
> day            01
> svn rev        38247
> language       R
> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
>
> Windows XP release reports reshape 0.7.1, but Mac OS X report 0.7.  
> It seems both versions are a bit different. I've detected at least  
> one diference: Mac OS X reshape cast function has not fill argument  
> available.
>
> Please, is there anything wrong with the Mac OS X release?
>

No, you are using an old R version for which binary packages are no  
longer created. Binary packages are maintained only for the latest  
release.

Cheers,
Simon