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

[Leonard Assis]

mine is a leopard binary
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 5:29 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 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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