Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504261244170.4572@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-04-26T11:45:34Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work
In-Reply-To: <42691E73.9030805@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
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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