[R-sig-ME] R-forge problem (windows binary packages)! {Re: ... lme4 ...}

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "DM" == Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de>
>>>>>     on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:35:41 +0000 (UTC) writes:

    DM> Douglas Bates <bates at ...> writes:
    >> Starting tomorrow you should also be able to install the development
    >> version of the package with
    >> 
    >> install.packages("lme4", repos = "http://r-forge.r-project.org")
    >> 

    DM> When I try this, I get:

    >> install.packages("lme4", repos = "http://r-forge.r-project.org")
    DM> Warning: unable to access index for repository
    DM> http://r-forge.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6
    DM> Warning message:
    DM> package ‘lme4’ is not available 

I see a severe problem with R-forge at the moment :
The 2.6   bin/windows/ directory looks completely empty.

Martin