update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE): possible bug
Jose resurrected this, and this time I reproduced it. It's a simple bug to fix, just an oversight in a test in install.packages(). It'll make it into 3.3.0. Duncan Murdoch
On 06/08/2015 7:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 06/08/2015 7:16 PM, Jose Claudio Faria wrote:
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
The bug described is occurring with all recent distributions available!
I discovery today, after install R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-04
r68843), that the bug happens when I copy my packages from old
distribution to the library folder (being careful not to overwrite the
newer ones that comes with the distribution). I've been doing this for a
long time.
As are many, it would be labor-intensive (but not impossible) to find
those responsible for the bug. If you decide that it is necessary I can
go testing package by package.
Without a reproducible example, I won't follow up on this. Duncan Murdoch