R devel - Jul 2010 - new bug in install.packages()

Hi,

install.packages() seems to be broken in latest R-devel snapshot
(2010-07-19 r52561) if you are using an
R/R.version$platform-library/x.y directory.

   > .libPaths()
   [1] "/home/hpages/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.12"
   [2] "/home/hpages/R-2.12/library"

   > install.packages("car")
   Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : too few arguments

Looks like the problem is in these lines (lines 194-197 in
file src/library/utils/R/packages2.R):

   lib <- .libPaths()[1L]
   if (length(.libPaths()) > 1L)
       message(gettextf("Installing package(s) into %s\n(as %s is 
unspecified)",
               sQuote(lib)), domain = NA)

Cheers,
H.


 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-07-19 r52561)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.12.0


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Hi

The link from CRAN to "new features in R-devel" hasn't been
working for a few days. Specifically, there is no NEWS file in
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/, though there is an ONEWS.

The link is in the "Source code for all platforms" subwindow, where it
says:

Daily snapshots of current patched and development versions are available here.
Please read about <<new features and bug fixes>> before filing
corresponding feature requests or bug reports.

Mark

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