I had to make the following modifications to parse.dcf() in order to get CRAN.packages() to work. Original: ok <- grep("^[ \t]+$", text) if (length(ok) > 0) { text <- text[!ok] } Fixed: notok <- grep("^[ \t]+", text) if (length(notok) > 0) { text <- text[-notok] } Martyn --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i686-unknown-linux arch = i686 os = linux system = i686, linux status = major = 0 minor = 90.0 year = 1999 month = November day = 22 language = R Search Path: .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._