On 29/07/2015 12:55 PM, Michael Friendly wrote:
On 7/19/2015 3:50 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>> For some, but not allI repositories I get the error message below:
>> >Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl =
>> >contriburl, :
>> > specifying 'contriburl' or 'available' requires a single type, not type =
>> >"both"
>> >
>> >Is it a bug?
I think that what Jose is referring to is this error message from
install.packages(), even though he set
options(pkgType='binary')
Isn't that a bug?
Moreover, in a fresh R 3.2.1 session [Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
(64-bit)], I see
> getOption("pkgType")
[1] "both"
I think this is somehow related to the fact that install.packages() will
now tell you if a more current source package exists and ask if you want
to install from source. But this would require RTools to
be installed to work.
IMHO, I consider this a major infelicity or design flaw, that will cause
problems for naive and even experienced users. install.packages("foo")
should always work unless package "foo" cannot
cannot be found in getOption("repos")
I'd like to see a reproducible example before I declared it to be a bug
that needs fixing.
Do note the news item in R-patched (soon to be R 3.2.2):
| - download.packages()| failed for |type| equal to either |"both"| or
|"binary"|. (Reported by Dan Tenenbaum.)
install.packages() can call download.packages(), so this might have been
fixed now.
Duncan Murdoch
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