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4 messages · Jan Theodore Galkowski, Uwe Ligges

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Jan Theodore Galkowski
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I admire package-builders being proactive and having their facilities
ready for upcoming  R releases.  However, if the publicly released
version of R is 2.10.1 and a package is built for R 2.11.0, users get
the embarrassing notice about a disconnect, and cannot do much about it.

If it is tedious to roll out a new package on time, perhaps there's a
possibility for automation here.

Thanks.  I encountered this yesterday with RHmm.  I'm running R on
WinXP.

Happy R user!

 - Jan Galkowski.
Uwe Ligges
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On 17.01.2010 16:33, Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote:
What a disconnect?
They should install the version that is intended for R-2.10.x releases, 
not the one for the development version.
The RHmm version in the 2.10 repository in CRAN has

Built: R 2.10.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2010-01-03 15:59:39 UTC; windows


hence built with R-2.10.x as required.
It is automated and we are currently building for R-2.9.x, R-2.10.x and 
R-devel (the latter in 32-bit and 64-bit), and you have just to say 
install.packages() and your R wil grab the right version. I suspect you 
downloaded something manually from the wrong repository.

Uwe Ligges
Jan Theodore Galkowski
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It is true RHmm is *not* available in the public central repositories. 
I think it's in Bioconductor. That said, the "installation process" was
the usual one from the GUI drop down, after electing repositories.  What
that does behind the scenes is something I do not know, but I don't see
how I could know. 

Just letting somebody know.  If you don't want to use the information,
that's cool with me.

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:04 +0100, "Uwe Ligges"
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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Uwe Ligges
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On 17.01.2010 18:16, Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote:
It is at the usual location at
CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.10/RHmm_1.3.1.zip
No on CRAN, and that's why I said CRAN. If it was BioConductor, this was 
the wrong mailing list anyway. Since I am the Windows binary maintainer 
for CRAN, I happen to know we have that package available and the line I 
reported is the build line of that package.
>
But then please tell us
a) What is your version of R?
b) Which mirror did you choose?
c) You installed by clicking from the Windows GUI?
d) Again, what is a "disconnect"?

Hard to say and debug if you do not tell us what you did and which error 
message you got. Please see the posting guide.

Uwe Ligges