R devel - Apr 2004 - R-devel from rsync 04/23

I see something new and unexpected here.

 > update.packages()
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 163467 bytes
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.........
downloaded 159Kb

Error in if (any(ok) && any(package.dependencies(available[ok, ], check
= TRUE))) { :
         missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
US mail: 8130 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
   
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But it also happens in 1.9.0 (always worth checking the current release, 
surely?)

Try CRAN.packages()[121,]

The CRAN PACKAGES file contains

Package: haplo.score
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 2002-09-13
Title: Score Tests for Association of Traits with Haplotypes when
  Linkage Phase is Ambiguous.
Author: Charles M. Rowland, David E. Tines, and Daniel J. Schaid
 .  R version translation by Gregory R. Warnes

Maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes
....

and that blank line should not be there.  There are a two others:

Package:        lars
Version:        0.9-4
Date:           2003-05-16
Title:          Least Angle Regression, Lasso and Forward Stagewise
Author:         Trevor Hastie and Brad Efron

Maintainer:     Trevor Hastie


Package: multinomRob
Version: 1.1
Date: 2004/03/03
Title: Robust Estimation of Overdispersed Multinomial Regression Models
Author: Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Jasjeet Singh Sekhon

Maintainer: Jasjeet Singh Sekhon


So, something has changed at CRAN, near midnight BST.


On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
> I see something new and unexpected here.
> 
>  > update.packages()
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 163467 bytes
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .........
> downloaded 159Kb
> 
> Error in if (any(ok) && any(package.dependencies(available[ok, ],
check
> = TRUE))) { :
>          missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> 
> ==> Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
> Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
> Software
> US mail: 8130 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
> phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
> homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
>    
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> -------------------------
>            No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai
>                     http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au
> 
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> 
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>>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:27:19 +0100 (BST),
>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley (PBR) wrote:
  > But it also happens in 1.9.0 (always worth checking the current release, 
  > surely?)

  > Try CRAN.packages()[121,]

  > The CRAN PACKAGES file contains

  > Package: haplo.score
  > Version: 1.0.2
  > Date: 2002-09-13
  > Title: Score Tests for Association of Traits with Haplotypes when
  >   Linkage Phase is Ambiguous.
  > Author: Charles M. Rowland, David E. Tines, and Daniel J. Schaid
  >  .  R version translation by Gregory R. Warnes

  > Maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes
  > ....

  > and that blank line should not be there.  There are a two others:

[...]

  > So, something has changed at CRAN, near midnight BST.


Sorry, my fault. I changed the index creation script to remove all
email adresses in order to reduce the amount of spam package authors
get, and forgot in one place to take care of the possibility of empty
lines. Should be fixed now.

Best,
Fritz

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