[R-SIG-Mac] Incorrect CRAN packages URL?

[Simon Urbanek]

Thanks - it's a small yet fatal bug (essentially a missing ".") that  
strangely no one reported in the beta/RC stage. The easiest work- 
around for now is to add
options(pkgType="mac.binary.universal")
to one of your startup scripts - e.g. just add it to
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/library/base/R/ 
Rprofile
if you are an admin, otherwise add it to your .Rprofile
The bug should not affect Leopard binaries. I shall post a fix on CRAN  
soon.

Cheers,
Simon

@David, please be more precise when asking such questions - I had no  
idea what you're taking about until Leonard's post.

On Oct 22, 2008, at 14:38 , Leonard Assis wrote:

> I ve seen this problem a couple of minutes ago
>
> I m looking for an answer to this issue too.
>
>
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.fiocruz.br/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8
> > update.packages()
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8
> > update.packages()
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8
>
> Leonard Assis
> lmassis at yahoo.com.br
> "An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal  
> more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."  - J. W. Tukey
>
>
> "I like working on applied and theoretical problems at the same time  
> and one thing nice about statistics is that you can be useful in a  
> wide variety of areas. So my current applications include  
> biostatistics and also astrophysical applications. The surprising  
> thing is that the methods used are similar in both areas." - Bradley  
> Efron
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:30 PM, David Airey wrote:
>
>> Using the IA directory choice, for example, I get this error message
>>
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8
>>
>> This URL doesn't exist. Why the double // ?
>>
>> -Dave
>>
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