MacOS X: update.packages(type="mac.binary") fails (PR#7831)

Binary installs are AFAIK only supported in the GUI, where the default is
as documented.
A bit more checking show that the documented default is

 	"source" except under the CRAN Mac OS X build

and the default is taken from .Platform$pkgType which is controlled by 
HAVE_AQUA.  So I have no idea why this is not working as documented.
So .install.macbinary() is not loaded except in the GUI.
Looks like the version of src/library/utils/R/GUI.R is not that which got 
tested: over to Stefano.  .install.macbinary() should only be available 
under the GUI, though.
The reason is that those binaries are tied to that particular build of R,
and will not work with a general build on MacOS X.

I would expect this to work from the command-line in the GUI console, and
had believed it had been tested there.


On Tue, 3 May 2005 jari.oksanen@oulu.fi wrote:

Full_Name: Jari Oksanen
Version: R 2.1.0
OS: MacOS 10.3.9
Submission from: (NULL) (130.231.102.145)


For various reasons (which need not be expanded here) I have tried to update my
long neglected R in MacOS X using handy command line tool update.packages()
using readily available binaries of contributed packages at CRAN. However, this
fails with message saying that packages xxxx_*_tar.gz is not found at the server
(HTTP error 404). Obviously, the package name is expanded wrongly as the binary
packages for MacOS X have type *.tgz. However, this seems not be the problem,
but there are two other problems:

1. update.packages does not transfer the value of 'type' to the next function
install.packages, but install.packages uses the value of getOption("pkgType")
which seems to be "source" in CRAN binary of MacOS X (contrary to documentation
at ?options).

2. If this is corrected, or first set options(pkgType="mac.binary"), the update
fails for missing function .install.macbinary().

The first problem is easy to correct:

--- update.packages.R   2005-05-03 17:13:36.000000000 +0300
+++ jarioksa.update.packages.R  2005-05-03 17:13:58.000000000 +0300
@@ -59,5 +59,5 @@
         install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl =
contriburl,
             method = method, available = available, destdir = destdir,
-            installWithVers = installWithVers, type)
+            installWithVers = installWithVers, type = type)
     }
 }


For the second, problem, I don't know what to do. grepping
R-patched_2005-05-03.tar.gz source found only one instance of
.install.macbinary(): the failed call in
R-patched/src/library/utils/R/packages2.R. I couldn't find the definition of the
function.

Do I really have to use GUI? Uh.

cheers, jari oksanen

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MacOS X: update.packages(type="mac.binary") fails (PR#7831)

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