R devel - Nov 2012 - unedited copy/paste from install.packages man page to update.packages man page

Hi,

Found in the man page for update.packages:

    repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use,
           i.e., the URL of the CRAN master such as
           ?"http://cran.r-project.org"? or its Statlib mirror,
           ?"http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN"?.Can be ?NULL? to install
           from local files (?.tar.gz? for source packages).

- Using "e.g." instead of "i.e." would seem more
appropriate.

- But more importantly, is repos = NULL really supported for
   update.packages? I wonder where I need to place the local files
   for this to work. I tried to put them in the current working
   directory but that didn't work:

     > packageVersion("BSgenome")
     [1] ?1.27.1?
     > dir()
     [1] "BSgenome_2.0.0.tar.gz"
     > update.packages(repos=NULL)

   This description of the 'repos' arg looks more like a copy/paste from
   the man page for install.packages that needed some edit.

- Another copy/paste is the \examples section for update.packages that
   shows in fact an example for install.packages, which is the same
   example that is shown in the man page for install.packages.

Could those minor things be corrected?

Thanks,
H.

-- 
Herv? Pag?s

Program in Computational Biology
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514
P.O. Box 19024
Seattle, WA 98109-1024

E-mail: hpages at fhcrc.org
Phone:  (206) 667-5791
Fax:    (206) 667-1319

Hi,

Looks like this was addressed in revision 61083, thanks!
Note that the example provided for update.packages is still the
same i.e. it shows how to use install.packages instead of
update.packages.

Cheers,
H.

On 11/01/2012 05:13 PM, Herv? Pag?s wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Found in the man page for update.packages:
>
>     repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use,
>            i.e., the URL of the CRAN master such as
>            ?"http://cran.r-project.org"? or its Statlib mirror,
>            ?"http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN"?.Can be ?NULL? to
install
>            from local files (?.tar.gz? for source packages).
>
> - Using "e.g." instead of "i.e." would seem more
appropriate.
>
> - But more importantly, is repos = NULL really supported for
>    update.packages? I wonder where I need to place the local files
>    for this to work. I tried to put them in the current working
>    directory but that didn't work:
>
>      > packageVersion("BSgenome")
>      [1] ?1.27.1?
>      > dir()
>      [1] "BSgenome_2.0.0.tar.gz"
>      > update.packages(repos=NULL)
>
>    This description of the 'repos' arg looks more like a copy/paste
from
>    the man page for install.packages that needed some edit.
>
> - Another copy/paste is the \examples section for update.packages that
>    shows in fact an example for install.packages, which is the same
>    example that is shown in the man page for install.packages.
>
> Could those minor things be corrected?
>
> Thanks,
> H.
>
-- 
Herv? Pag?s

Program in Computational Biology
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514
P.O. Box 19024
Seattle, WA 98109-1024

E-mail: hpages at fhcrc.org
Phone:  (206) 667-5791
Fax:    (206) 667-1319