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On October 11, 2014 11:12:40 PM PDT, Marc Girondot <marc_grt at yahoo.fr>
wrote:>I use R-devel 3.2 in order to check "as cran" packages that I
develop.
>To maintain my package uptodate, I cannot use the update.packages()
>directly because the packages are not still compiled for version 3.2.
>Then I use:
>update.packages(contriburl =
contrib.url(repos=options("repos")$repos,
>type="source"))
>
>But at the time of installation, I get an error, for example:
> > update.packages(contriburl =
>contrib.url(repos=options("repos")$repos,
type="source"))
>nlme :
> Version 3.1-117 installed in
>/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library
> Version 3.1-118 available at http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib
>Update (y/N/c)? y
>essai de l'URL
'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tgz'
>Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
> impossible d'ouvrir l'URL
>'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tgz'
>De plus : Warning message:
>In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
> ouverture impossible : le statut HTTP ?tait '404 Not Found'
>Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available >available,
:
> le t?l?chargement du package ?nlme? a ?chou?
>
>When I use :
>install.packages("nlme", type="source")
>essai de l'URL
'http://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/nlme_3.1-118.tar.gz'
>Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 759483 bytes (741 Kb)
>URL ouverte
>=================================================>downloaded 741 Kb
>
>It works well.
>
>It seems at .tgz is not available in CRAN mirror. It is normal ?
>Is it a way to force .tar.gz to be used ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Marc Girondot
>
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