On 14 October 2008 at 09:39, Simon Blomberg wrote: | Hi, is anyone else getting this error? Could this be a bug?: | | > update.packages(ask=FALSE) | Error in read.dcf(pkgpath, fields = fields) : | Line starting 'unix; ...' is malformed! | | > sessionInfo() | R version 2.8.0 RC (2008-10-12 r46696) | x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Confirmed in plain R using the same package built this morning from last night's tarball from Denmark: Running update.packages() yields: > update.packages() --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Error in read.dcf(pkgpath, fields = fields) : Line starting 'unix; ...' is malformed! OTOH I don't have a problem running my 'update.r' script (included in littler as /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/update.r) which just downloaded / upgraded ten packages. It is equivalent to calling > repos <- "http://cran.r-project.org"; > lib.loc <- "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" > update.packages(repos=repos, ask=FALSE, lib.loc=lib.loc) and that sequence also works in plain R. Could someone please dig into update.packages() ? Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
