Luís Moreira de Sousa
2018-May-09 12:23 UTC
[R] Package parallel missing from CRAN_package_db
Dear all, I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database:> pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() > pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"][1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database? Thank you. -- Lu?s Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 09/05/2018 8:23 AM, Lu??s Moreira de Sousa via R-help wrote:> Dear all, > > I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database: > >> pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() >> pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"] > [1] Package > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database?parallel is a base package. By definition, it is updated only when R is updated. You can't install it from CRAN unless you install all of R. Duncan Murdoch
Hi Lu?s, The parallel package is built-in, and so is not distributed via cran. You'll see the same thing for all the built in packages, e.g.,> pdb[pdb$Package=="stats",]["Package"][1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)> pdb[pdb$Package=="splines",]["Package"][1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)> pdb[pdb$Package=="tools",]["Package"][1] Package <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) --Ista On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Lu??s Moreira de Sousa via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:> Dear all, > > I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database: > >> pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() >> pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"] > [1] Package > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database? > > Thank you. > > -- > Lu?s > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Luís Moreira de Sousa
2018-May-09 15:10 UTC
[R] Package parallel missing from CRAN_package_db
Thank you Ista and Duncan for the swift replies. Regards. ?-- Lu?s Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.? ??????? Original Message ??????? On 9 May 2018 4:34 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi Lu?s, > > The parallel package is built-in, and so is not distributed via cran. > > You'll see the same thing for all the built in packages, e.g., > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="stats",]["Package"] > > [1] Package > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="splines",]["Package"] > > [1] Package > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="tools",]["Package"] > > [1] Package > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > --Ista > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Lu??s Moreira de Sousa via R-help > > r-help at r-project.org wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database: > > > > > pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db() > > > > > > pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"] > > > > > > [1] Package > > > > > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > > > Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database? > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > > > Lu?s > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.