[R-SIG-Mac] install.packages in 2.7.0 build

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The default works -- you have set options("repos") somewhere.
You can use

options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.<insert>.r-project.org"))

*However*, I noticed last night that the 2.7 MacOS binary packages on CRAN 
are way out of date (late Nov 2007), which is worrying when we are 
supposed to be beta-testing (and the Windows equivalent has been running 
for a month now).

I suggest that until that is updated you use

install.packages("pkgname", type="source")

which has worked for me.


On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Following previous threads I have installed and using a 2.7.0 beta release:
>
> > version
>               _
> platform       i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
> arch           i386
> os             darwin8.10.1
> system         i386, darwin8.10.1
> status         beta
> major          2
> minor          7.0
> year           2008
> month          04
> day            10
> svn rev        45232
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.7.0 beta (2008-04-10 r45232)
> >
>
> When trying to install any package I get the error:

How? For the command line, install.packages() or the the R.app GUI you did 
not mention?

> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7
>
> Please, what repository must I use? I guess the command must be
>
> > options(repos=c(CRAN="repository URL"))
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Ricardo
>
>
> --
> Ricardo Rodríguez
> Your XEN ICT Team
>
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