Error in update() when repositories is specified.

How can I specify the repositories for upgrade()?
x <- packageStatus(repositories =
"http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/2.0")
upgrade(x, ask = FALSE)
Error in update[, 3] : incorrect number of dimensions

x, the object of class "packageStatus", prints and summarizes fine. I also
ran install.packages() without incident.
install.packages(x$avail$Package[x$avail$Status == "not installed"])
I get the same error if I specify the repositories with getOption:
getOption("repositories")()[[1]]
[1] "http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/2.0"
x <- packageStatus(repositories = getOption("repositories")()[[1]])
upgrade(x, ask = FALSE)
Error in update[, 3] : incorrect number of dimensions

However, upgrade behaves if I don't specify "repositories" in
packageStatus() things work as expected.
x <- packageStatus()
upgrade(x)
I imagine that I am being a dimwit as per usual. Can anybody help?

-Andy
Ooops. Make that subject line 'upgrade', not 'update!' Sorry. -AB
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Andy Bunn
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:23 AM
To: R-Help
Subject: [R] Error in update() when repositories is specified.

How can I specify the repositories for upgrade()?

x <- packageStatus(repositories =
"http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/2.0")
upgrade(x, ask = FALSE)
Error in update[, 3] : incorrect number of dimensions

x, the object of class "packageStatus", prints and summarizes fine. I also
ran install.packages() without incident.
install.packages(x$avail$Package[x$avail$Status == "not installed"])
I get the same error if I specify the repositories with getOption:
getOption("repositories")()[[1]]
[1] "http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/2.0"
x <- packageStatus(repositories = getOption("repositories")()[[1]])
upgrade(x, ask = FALSE)
Error in update[, 3] : incorrect number of dimensions

However, upgrade behaves if I don't specify "repositories" in
packageStatus() things work as expected.
x <- packageStatus()
upgrade(x)
I imagine that I am being a dimwit as per usual. Can anybody help?

-Andy

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I don't think that has ever been tested under Windows: until recently
packageStatus did not work under Windows at all.

The problem seems to be in ask=FALSE, which looks completely broken.
ask=TRUE seems to work.  This was true of Unix, 1.9.1 as well so I guess 
no one ever uses it ....

Ooops. Make that subject line 'upgrade', not 'update!' Sorry. -AB

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Andy Bunn
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:23 AM
To: R-Help
Subject: [R] Error in update() when repositories is specified.

How can I specify the repositories for upgrade()?
You will find it easier to use contrib.url() here.
x <- packageStatus(repositories =
"http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/2.0")
upgrade(x, ask = FALSE)
Error in update[, 3] : incorrect number of dimensions

x, the object of class "packageStatus", prints and summarizes fine. I also
ran install.packages() without incident.
install.packages(x$avail$Package[x$avail$Status == "not installed"])
I get the same error if I specify the repositories with getOption:
getOption("repositories")()[[1]]
[1] "http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/2.0"
x <- packageStatus(repositories = getOption("repositories")()[[1]])
upgrade(x, ask = FALSE)
Error in update[, 3] : incorrect number of dimensions

However, upgrade behaves if I don't specify "repositories" in
packageStatus() things work as expected.
x <- packageStatus()
upgrade(x)
I imagine that I am being a dimwit as per usual. Can anybody help?

-Andy

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