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

[Marius Hofert]

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

Unfortunately not:

,----
| > require(grid)
| Loading required package: grid
| > vignette(package="grid")
| no vignettes found
| > require(utils)
| > vignette(package="utils")
| no vignettes found
| > 
`----

> 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.)

I installed R from source:

,----
| wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.0.tar.gz 
| tar -xzf R-2.15.0.tar.gz
| cd R-2.15.0
| ./configure
| make
| make check
| make pdf
| make info
| sudo make install
| sudo make install-info
| sudo make install-pdf
`----

Do I need to do anything additionally to get the vignettes?

Cheers,

Marius

>
>
> Duncan Murdoch