[R-SIG-Mac] contrib.url(type = 'mac.binary')

[peter dalgaard]

That seems unlikely. The default installs usually work automatically and get binaries from the right place. Jeroon's issue is mostly if you want to force in a certain set of compiled packages from CRAN and/or that our documentation needs updating.  

However, I gather that there was a messup in Rcpp which broke it on 4.4.2, and I would not be surprised if fallout from that would affect the CRAN ecosystem via reverse dependencies for a while. (The actual issue got fixed quite fast, but things may take time to settle.)

- pd

> On 11 Nov 2024, at 17:38 , Clement Kent <clementfkent using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Iris. I upgraded to 4.4.2 on my Monterey M1 Pro yesterday and had a
> number of mysterious problems reinstalling packages. I wonder if this is
> related to Jeroen's report?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM Iris Simmons <ikwsimmo using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think you can use .Platform$pkgType to get the string with the
>> appropriate suffix.
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 09:38 Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The R-admin manual section 6.6 talks about "mac.binary" to refer to
>>> macos binary packages but I don't think this is working. On R-4.4.2:
>>> 
>>>  contrib.url(repos = 'https://cran.r-project.org', type = 'mac.binary')
>>>  # "https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/contrib/4.4"
>>> 
>>> This URL is 404 because it is missing the /big-sur-arm64/ dir in the
>>> path. For the same reason we get an error:
>>> 
>>>   install.packages('MASS', type = 'mac.binary')
>>> 
>>> I think in practice only type = "both" currently finds the correct
>>> binary packages?
>>> 
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