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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 12, 2008, at 1:35 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team  
wrote:

> 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"))
> It works with .us. as <insert>. Thanks
>
>> options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.us.r-project.org"))
>> options("repos")
> $repos
>                          CRAN
> "http://cran.us.r-project.org"
>
> Available packages are listed in R.app GUI and install.packages()
> command pops up a window with the available packages as well.
>
> What I don't know is how...
>
> $repos
>                                                        CRAN
> "http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7"
>
> ...reached my installation. Must the 2.7.0 beta installer be blamed  
> for
> that?


Not really - please check your R.app preferences ...

Cheers,
Simon


>
>>
>> *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 CRAN are way out of date (late Nov 2007), which is worrying when we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.
>
> OK. I'll do that. Please, is there any alert system to be aware of
> updates other than "go and see"? Thanks.
>>
>> How? For the command line, install.packages() or the the R.app GUI  
>> you
>> did not mention?
>>
>
> Both.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Ricardo
>
> -- 
> Ricardo Rodríguez
> Your XEN ICT Team
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