I believe you will find this is already fixed in R-patched and R-devel as the logs say (2005-10-07)
r35790 Fixed a typo in aqua R code and it seems to be that line. On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, G. Sawitzki wrote: > > See below. > > gs. > > Error in browse.pkgs("CRAN", "binary") : couldn't find function > "avaliable.packages" > > Your version of R is up to date >> browse.pkgs > function (repos = getOption("repos"), contriburl = contrib.url(repos, > type), type = getOption("pkgType")) > { > if (.Platform$GUI != "AQUA") > stop("this function is intended to work with the Aqua GUI") > x <- installed.packages() > i.pkgs <- as.character(x[, 1]) > i.vers <- as.character(x[, 3]) > label <- paste("(", type, ") @", contriburl) > y <- avaliable.packages(contriburl = contriburl) > c.pkgs <- as.character(y[, 1]) > c.vers <- as.character(y[, 2]) > idx <- match(i.pkgs, c.pkgs) > vers2 <- character(length(c.pkgs)) > xx <- idx[which(!is.na(idx))] > vers2[xx] <- i.vers[which(!is.na(idx))] > i.vers <- vers2 > want.update <- rep(FALSE, length(i.vers)) > .Internal(pkgbrowser(c.pkgs, c.vers, i.vers, label, want.update)) > } > <environment: namespace:utils> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel