On 12.04.2011 14:52, Ian Davis wrote:
Uwe, I really do appreciate the help from you and Douglas on resolving this problem. However, I respectfully disagree on a few points: - install.packages() was broken and failing to install successfully.
install.packages() works well, it is *not* broken.
This is why I was tracking down the URL via the CRAN website.
yes, but that was not recent since the repository was more recent. And updating web pages takes its time for 3000 packages.
download.packages() would have done it fine, since it is not relying on the web page. But then, install.packages() worked as well.
- I think it's crazy to have an update process that breaks links for ~24 hours every time a package is updated.
No, I just said wait for 24 hours to be on the safe side. I does not take 24 hours. For binary package versions, you need to wait 72 hours (at least that is what we promise).
> This means that on any given
day, some significant fraction of R packages just cannot be installed?
They can always be installed, since a repository is up to date at once, just the web pages are not updates at once.
Even if you "just" have broken links on the web site, it looks pretty bad. "Wait till tomorrow" seems like a poor response for a project as large and widely used as R. I'll repeat what I told Douglas -- as a user of R, it would be very helpful if the list of mirrors indicated which one(s) were authoritative (and by implication, which are unreliable).
Unreliable mirrors are removed from the list of mirrors from time to time. Mirrors are updates at least twice a week.
Best, Uwe Ligges
Thanks again for your help, and for your work on maintaining R. Best, Ian 2011/4/12 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de <mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> On 11.04.2011 21:03, Douglas Bates wrote: The first thing to do is try another mirror. The "official" (or as official as we ever get about anything) U.S. mirror is http://cran.us.R-project.org They tend to be very good about updating. Presently the source package for plyr is at version 1.5 and the binary versions are both at 1.4.1 Right, and on CRAN master the update process was running and hence you got a 440. Or in other words: Please just be a bit patient after a package was updated, the automated processes may take a day to complete. You can access the repositories without any problem using install.packages() and friends. Uwe Ligges On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ian Davis<ian.w.da...@gmail.com <mailto:ian.w.da...@gmail.com>> wrote: It looks like there might be some kind of problem with the Plyr-1.4.1 packages pushed to CRAN? The web pages show 1.4.1 as the current version, but trying to fetch the source through the provided link gives a 404: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/web/packages/plyr/index.html $ wget http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/plyr_1.4.1.tar.gz --2011-04-11 13:19:09-- http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/plyr_1.4.1.tar.gz Resolving lib.stat.cmu.edu... 128.2.241.212 Connecting to lib.stat.cmu.edu <http://lib.stat.cmu.edu>|128.2.241.212|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-04-11 13:19:09 ERROR 404: Not Found. This prevented me from installing ggplot2 until I went back and found an old version (1.4) of Plyr to install manually. Since it looks like Plyr was *just* updated a few days ago, I'm guessing something went awry? I checked several CRAN mirrors and got the same problem with all of them. They think the current version is 1.4.1, but they don't have any files available for download. Hope this helps, Ian [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list 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.
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