[R-SIG-Mac] PACKAGES file missing

[peter dalgaard]

[See note from Simon Urbanek on February 7. All is related to Simon and his equipment being turned upside down a few weeks ago. -pd]

> On 12 Feb 2020, at 12:42 , Joel Jacobson <joel using compiler.org> wrote:
> 
> The file was missing for sure from all mirrors also the main one. My guess is you have a cronjob that builds the new PACKAGES file that removes the old file before the new one has been created.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, at 17:01, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> You didn't give any advice. I did :-)-O And it does what the OP asked 
>> for :-)-O
>> 
>> I do some things in the command line R or even running stuff as Rscript,
>> but for development (and updates) an IDE such as RStudio is very helpful
>> even if it is not die reine Lehre :-)-O
>> 
>> el
>> 
>> On 12/02/2020 12:53, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12.02.2020 10:51, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> [...]
>>> For myself, I would not use RStudio as it does what you describe: Lots
>>> of things I do not want to be done. So I typically never give advise
>>> which editor or environment to use, as that is a matter of taste.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Uwe Ligges
>> [...]
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Joel
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