[R-SIG-Mac] Vignette package 'parallel'?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-04-15 3:34 AM, Marius Hofert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I couldn't find the vignette for the package 'parallel' (Mac OS X 10.7.3; R
> 2.15.0). I then tried to (re)install the package (I know I comes with R
> natively). I obtained:
>
> ,----
> |>  require(parallel)
> | Loading required package: parallel
> |>  vignette(package="parallel")
> | no vignettes found
> |>  install.packages("parallel", type="source")
> | Installing package(s) into ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/library’
> | (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> | Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.ch.r-project.org/src/contrib
> | Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.bioconductor.org/src/contrib
> | Warning message:
> | package ‘parallel’ is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
> |>
> `----
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
> PS: Dirk Eddelbuettel sent me the vignette off-list, I just would like to know
> how I could get it via 'vignette(package="parallel")'.
>

Do you have the vignttes from grid, or the one from utils?  If not, 
you'll need to re-install R.  (I just installed the binary R-2.15.0.pkg 
from CRAN, and didn't get those vignettes:  so it looks like the current 
binary isn't installing them.)

Duncan Murdoch