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update.packages keeps trying to update gregmisc

4 messages · Brian Ripley, Gabor Grothendieck

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Gabor Grothendieck
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If I issue the command
it wants to update 'gregmisc' but then if I do it again right afterwards it 
still wants to update 'gregmisc'.  It should have updated everything
the first time and should not be trying to update anything the second
time.  Any comments?

Here is the transcript of a session (R version at end):
gregmisc :
 Version 2.0.7 installed in C:/PROGRA~1/R/RW2010~1/library 
 Version 2.0.8 available at http://probability.ca/cran
Update (y/N/c)?  y
trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/gregmisc_2.0.8.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2465 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 2465 bytes

package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded packages are in
        C:\Documents and Settings\Grothendieck\Local
Settings\Temp\Rtmp9430\downloaded_packages
updating HTML package descriptions
gregmisc :
 Version 2.0.7 installed in C:/PROGRA~1/R/RW2010~1/library 
 Version 2.0.8 available at http://probability.ca/cran
Update (y/N/c)?  y
trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/gregmisc_2.0.8.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 2465 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 2465 bytes

package 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded packages are in
        C:\Documents and Settings\Grothendieck\Local
Settings\Temp\Rtmp9430\downloaded_packages
updating HTML package descriptions
[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-05-14"
Gabor Grothendieck
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One other point I just noticed.  If I run new.packages() it reports this,
namely that gregmisc has extra contents of NA.
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning messages:
1: bundle 'VR' is incompletely installed in: new.packages() 
2: bundle 'VR' has extra contents 'nnet' in: new.packages() 
3: bundle 'gregmisc' is incompletely installed in: new.packages() 
4: bundle 'gregmisc' has extra contents 'NA' in: new.packages()
On 6/6/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com> wrote:
Brian Ripley
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This is due to the inconsistent way gregmisc has been unbundled.  There
was a gregmisc 2.0-7 containing gplots etc as part of a bundle, and there
are also versions of gplots etc *with the same version number* which are
not part of a bundle.

The only way out I have found is to remove gregmisc and, if necessary, its
former component packages, and then re-install gplots etc.
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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That worked!  Thanks.

        
On 6/7/05, Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: