Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304251839360.20074-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-04-25T19:41:16Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Bug in versioned install (was: (fwd) R-1.7.0 : Problem withDownloading "dse") (PR#2827)
In-Reply-To: <3EA96B07.40405@bank-banque-canada.ca>
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.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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