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Date: 2018-05-09T15:10:23Z
From: Luís Moreira de Sousa
Subject: Package parallel missing from CRAN_package_db
In-Reply-To: <CA+vqiLH5v=c-cj+fjUwBoABcOrUyPCaVTyqeiWL0dbXfMeuGHA@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you Ista and Duncan for the swift replies.
Regards.
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Lu?s
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On 9 May 2018 4:34 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lu?s,
>
> The parallel package is built-in, and so is not distributed via cran.
>
> You'll see the same thing for all the built in packages, e.g.,
>
> > pdb[pdb$Package=="stats",]["Package"]
>
> [1] Package
>
> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
> > pdb[pdb$Package=="splines",]["Package"]
>
> [1] Package
>
> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
> > pdb[pdb$Package=="tools",]["Package"]
>
> [1] Package
>
> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
> --Ista
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Lu??s Moreira de Sousa via R-help
>
> r-help at r-project.org wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database:
> >
> > > pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db()
> > >
> > > pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"]
> > >
> > > [1] Package
> > >
> > > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
> >
> > Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Lu?s
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