Bug in versioned install (was: (fwd) R-1.7.0 : Problem withDownloading "dse") (PR#2827)
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:
Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
A patch for install.packages() can be loaded as
source("http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/patches/rw1070/install.packages.R
")
All fixes are done to the local function unpackPkg() of
install.packages(). The fix is based on the assumption that a bundle (in
zip format) contains directories for packages , which in turn contains
the DESCRIPTION files needed. Is this assumption correct?! I also made
When I put the bundle together, the bundle directory contains a DESCRIPTION file, and each package subdirectory contains a file DESCRIPTION.in. At some point the DESCRIPTION and DESCRIPTION.in files are cat'ed together in each package directory (but not by me). So, the assumption may be correct at some point in the process, put it is not correct at the beginning.
It is true of a binary INSTALL of a bundle, the issue here. However, this bug is supposed to be already fixed in R-patched, I believe.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk 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