Dear list Having just started to use the Windows version, I am very impressed with it's package handling as well as the gui. So I tried to see what was due for update and packages such as Hmisc, Matrix and others came up. But when I had updated them - which took a few goes as something hung between here and Bristol - I noticed that the default packages such as nmle, MASS had disappeared. I re-installed them but is this a glitch or a feature? Best wishes John John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler" j.logsdon at quantex-research.com a.einstein at relativity.org +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com
On 1/18/2006 9:51 AM, John Logsdon wrote:> Dear list > > Having just started to use the Windows version, I am very impressed with > it's package handling as well as the gui. > > So I tried to see what was due for update and packages such as Hmisc, > Matrix and others came up. > > But when I had updated them - which took a few goes as something hung > between here and Bristol - I noticed that the default packages such as > nmle, MASS had disappeared. I re-installed them but is this a glitch or a > feature?That's not supposed to happen; my guess is that it's related to those hangs you mention. Do you think it tried to update those, but failed because of problems with the mirror? Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John Logsdon wrote:> Dear list > > Having just started to use the Windows version, I am very impressed with > it's package handling as well as the gui. > > So I tried to see what was due for update and packages such as Hmisc, > Matrix and others came up. > > But when I had updated them - which took a few goes as something hung > between here and Bristol - I noticed that the default packages such as > nmle, MASS had disappeared. I re-installed them but is this a glitch or a > feature?Were they amongst the updates (I suspect so)? R tries hard to recover from failures to download, but it cannot do so if you kill it at a crucial time. (For source-code installs, 2.3.0 will be even better at recovering as it will catch attempts to kill and clean up.) -- 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 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595