[R-SIG-Mac] [Rd] CRAN: No MacOS X binary builds since January 7

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Not an issue for *this* list!

I used this list to share this with package developers - not
particularly MacOS X users.  As a package provider  I'd like to know
when packages are not available on all platforms.  It seems like a
errors, because the records show that packages are typically built
every day.

>
> Please report to the maintainer and perhaps cc R-sig-mac.

Maintainer has been notified repeatably without response (==don't know
if my messages even gets through).

>  Note that you are
> looking at the (old) Tiger binaries and not the more current Leopard ones,
> which were last updated yesterday,

Thanks for this note.  As a non-OSX user, I wasn't aware of this.  It
made me find:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/r-release/

This is not the directory that are used for the MacOS X links when
going to package pages under http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/,
e.g.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/aroma.core/

The MacOS X links is:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/r-release/aroma.core_1.3.1.tgz

Another example is here:

  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/biglars/

Then, do the MacOS X links on the CRAN package pages need to be
updated/complemented?

If this is already well known, that is all I need to hear.  (I
understand that install.packages() takes care of the installation).

/Henrik

>
> In any case, binary packages are a privilege and you can always install from
> the sources (in the vast majority of cases with no extra tools other than
> Xcode).
>
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>> FYI,
>>
>> no MacOS X binaries have been built for CRAN since 2010-01-07:
>>
>>> url <-
>>> "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/r-release/";
>>> x <- readLines(url);
>>
>> pattern <- ".*([0-9]{2}-[A-Za-z]{3}-[0-9]{4}) ([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}).*";
>> y <- grep(pattern, x, value=TRUE);
>> y <- grep("PACKAGE", y, invert=TRUE, value=TRUE);
>> z <- gsub(pattern, "\\1", y);
>> z <- unique(z);
>> z <- as.Date(z, "%d-%b-%Y");
>> z <- sort(z);
>> print(z);
>>>
>>> pattern <- ".*([0-9]{2}-[A-Za-z]{3}-[0-9]{4}) ([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}).*";
>>> y <- grep(pattern, x, value=TRUE);
>>> y <- grep("PACKAGE", y, invert=TRUE, value=TRUE);
>>> z <- gsub(pattern, "\\1", y);
>>> z <- unique(z);
>>> z <- as.Date(z, "%d-%b-%Y");
>>> z <- sort(z);
>>> print(z);
>>
>> [1] "2009-07-18" "2009-07-19" "2009-10-02" "2009-10-16" "2009-10-27"
>> [6] "2009-10-28" "2009-10-29" "2009-10-30" "2009-10-31" "2009-11-02"
>> [11] "2009-11-04" "2009-11-05" "2009-11-06" "2009-11-07" "2009-11-09"
>> [16] "2009-11-10" "2009-11-11" "2009-11-12" "2009-11-13" "2009-11-14"
>> [21] "2009-11-16" "2009-11-17" "2009-11-18" "2009-11-19" "2009-11-20"
>> [26] "2009-11-21" "2009-11-23" "2009-11-24" "2009-11-25" "2009-11-26"
>> [31] "2009-11-27" "2009-11-28" "2009-11-30" "2009-12-01" "2009-12-02"
>> [36] "2009-12-03" "2009-12-04" "2009-12-07" "2009-12-08" "2009-12-10"
>> [41] "2009-12-11" "2009-12-12" "2009-12-14" "2009-12-15" "2009-12-16"
>> [46] "2009-12-17" "2009-12-18" "2009-12-19" "2009-12-21" "2009-12-22"
>> [51] "2009-12-23" "2009-12-24" "2009-12-25" "2009-12-27" "2009-12-29"
>> [56] "2009-12-30" "2009-12-31" "2010-01-02" "2010-01-03" "2010-01-04"
>> [61] "2010-01-05" "2010-01-06" "2010-01-07"
>>>
>>> print(table(diff(z)));
>>
>> 1  2  3 11 14 75
>> 46 12  1  1  1  1
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
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