[R-SIG-Mac] cannit get list of binary packages from the GUI

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 17, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 17/03/2012 11:27, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>>
>> On 17-03-2012, at 12:06, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote:
>>>>>> Federico Calboli<f.calboli<at>   imperial.ac.uk>   writes:
>>>>>>> Apologies, I forgot to say, I have R 2.14.2, latest 64-bit GUI
>>>>>> from http://r.research.att.com/, OS 10.7.3
>>>>>>>> I just noticed the following weird issue.  If I go to the menu
>>>>>> 'Packages and Data',  select 'Package
>>>>>>> Installer' the installer goes up, but when I tell it to give the
>>>>>> list of binaries available (I like to keep up
>>>>>>> to date, and check every couple of days) the list comes up  
>>>>>>> empty.
>>>>>> The list for CRAN sources, and for
>>>>>>> Bioconductor binaries work fine.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried to change the mirror, but it does not make a  
>>>>>>>> difference.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Am I the only one with the problem? what's going on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I second this observation.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is going on is that http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/ 
>>>>>  has an empty PACKAGES file.  Given that it hadn't been updated  
>>>>> for a couple of weeks on Weds, you may just need to be patient.   
>>>>> But in any case, only Simon can fix this as only he has  
>>>>> sufficient access to the package builder. So reporting to Simon  
>>>>> is always going to be the most effective way forward for similar  
>>>>> problems.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... it's not empty on the master machine -- use http://r.research.att.com 
>>>>  as the mirror - it should work ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Could PACKAGES file be in some damaged state that R cannot  
>>> process? When I change the repository to that value  in the R64  
>>> GUI and try to see either either the binary versions or the source  
>>> versions of contributed packages in the Package Installer I get  
>>> these warnings at the console:
>>>
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository  http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14
>>>
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository  http://r.research.att.com/src/contrib
>>>
>>> I am able to see the .tgz packages at http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/ 
>>>  with Firefox.
>>>
>>> I am able to get a list of source packages (but not binary) to  
>>> display in the Package Installer if I use a different repository.  
>>> And I am able to install binary packages with ... for example:
>>>
>>> install.packages("actuar", repo="http://r.research.att.com",  
>>> type="mac.binary.leopard")
>>>
>>> (Which updated an existing version to the current version.)
>>>
>>> Admittedly I am running a somewhat behind the times version, but  
>>> this is completely different behavior than it has exhibited up to  
>>> a few days ago.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I updated binary packages  this morning (17 March 2012  approx.  
>> 9:00 CET) without any problem at all from http://cran.r- 
>> project.org. Yesterday no update appeared possible (Get List  
>> couldn't retrieve the list of packages ).
>
> Yes, I updated PACKAGES[.gz] on the CRAN master this morning.  There  
> is clearly a problem mirroring to CRAN and I have alerted the  
> relevant people.  Hopefully mirroring will not wipe out the files I  
> copied over without putting later ones in their place.

In case anyone actually needs to use the Package Installer while this  
get investigated, I see that the CRAN repo at "the Hutch" still is in  
a state where it will populate the binaries list.

http://cran.fhcrc.org

Neither the AT&T, the CMU, nor the ETH CRAN repos will do so as of 1PM  
US Eastern time.

-- 
David
>
>
>> Using R 2.14.2.
>>
>
>
>> Berend
>>
>> R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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David Winsemius, MD
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