Something strange is happening with update.packages on my machine (Win2000, R-1.5.0 installed from binaries). Some of the packages (see below) keep getting updated every time. When I issue update.packages() I get this every time for the last few days (I think since I installed 1.5 and the packages but I am not sure). This happens with CRAN shown below and also with CRAN set to cran.r-project.org. I checked only one of them - polynom. It looks like the CRAN.packages function returns the available version as 1.1-10 but the DESCRIPTION file in the downloaded binary polynom says 1.1-8. I am almost sure that this is a mismatch between the precompiled versions update.packages uses on Windows machines and the sources. For example, the source tarball for polynom seems to be 1.1-10. Cheers, Andy> update.packages()trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' Content type `text/plain' length 6560 bytes opened URL downloaded 6560 bytes boot : Version 1.2-7 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.2-8 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n bqtl : Version 1.0-4 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.0-5 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n chron : Version 2.2-20 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 2.2-21 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n emplik : Version 0.4 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 0.5-1 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n foreign : Version 0.5-2 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 0.5-4 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n geoRglm : Version 0.4-3 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 0.4-4 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n logspline : Version 1.0-4 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.0-5 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n Matrix : Version 0.3-16 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 0.3-18 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n mclust : Version 1.1-6 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.1-7 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n mgcv : Version 0.7-2 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 0.8-0 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n norm : Version 1.0-7 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.0-8 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n polynom : Version 1.1-8 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.1-10 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n sgeostat : Version 1.0-15 in C:/R/rw1050/library Version 1.0-16 on CRAN Update (y/N)? n>__________________________________ Andy Jaworski Engineering Systems Technology Center 3M Center, 518-1-01 St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 ----- E-mail: apjaworski at mmm.com Tel: (651) 733-6092 Fax: (651) 736-3122 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Fri, 10 May 2002 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:> Something strange is happening with update.packages on my machine (Win2000, > R-1.5.0 installed from binaries). Some of the packages (see below) keep > getting updated every time. When I issue update.packages() I get this > every time for the last few days (I think since I installed 1.5 and the > packages but I am not sure). This happens with CRAN shown below and also > with CRAN set to cran.r-project.org. > > I checked only one of them - polynom. It looks like the CRAN.packages > function returns the available version as 1.1-10 but the DESCRIPTION file > in the downloaded binary polynom says 1.1-8. I am almost sure that this isBut that's not the version number in the DESCRIPTION file of polynom.zip on cran.r-project.org nor that on cran.us.r-project.org, so you have a problem with your downloading, possibly a cache local to you (although the standard code asks for an uncached copy, many caches/proxies ignore this).> a mismatch between the precompiled versions update.packages uses on Windows > machines and the sources. For example, the source tarball for polynom > seems to be 1.1-10.Well, you are 100% surely wrong! The version number is in the PACKAGES file you downloaded, and that is auto-generated by reading the zip files. Why speculate when you can read the code? [...] -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._