Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Roger D. Peng wrote:
What happens if you don't set the 'CRAN' option via 'options()' first and just run 'install.packages()'?
Should be the same as long as no CRAN mirror has been choosen and X11 is not accessible (see my other message). The code needs to be a bit more defensive here - or present a better error message.
It was a bug, already (by last Friday) corrected in R-patched:
o Typo in menu(graphics=TRUE) meant it failed on Unix if tcltk
was not available.
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