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I suggest that there be an additional sentence in the explanation for the 'repos' argument in the help file for 'install.packages': If the repository is on a local drive, then the string should begin with \code{file:}, e.g., \code{"file:J:/Rrepos"}. Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety, but it makes things work in my case. Pat -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R Inferno' ...

Dear list, I?m maintainsing a package containing only datasets (152): http://dutangc.free.fr/pub/RRepos/web/CASdatasets-index.html <http://dutangc.free.fr/pub/RRepos/web/CASdatasets-index.html> When R CMD checking the package, I get the following NOTE * checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings I wonder how to find which dataset(s) (all recorded as r...