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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 12, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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 on CRAN are way out of date (late Nov 2007), which is worrying when  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).
>

Thanks for the catch - the builds are online for some time and recent:

imac86:bin$ ls -lt 2.7|head
total 1430480
-rw-r--r--   1 urbanek  admin     19875 Apr 11 02:29 epsi_1.0-3.tgz
-rw-r--r--   1 urbanek  admin    200957 Apr 11 02:28 epitools_0.4-9.tgz

However, the mirroring was not syncing 2.7 packages properly. It  
should be fixed now.

@Kurt, can you, please, add MacOSX R-beta checks results to the  
webpages?

Thanks,
Simon


> 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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