[R-pkg-devel] uuid 1.1-0 binary not available for Windows?
Hi, It looks like binaries for uuid 1.1-0 are not available for R 4.1 on Windows. However, available.packages() reports that it is available:
options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cran.r-project.org")) db <- available.packages(type = "binary") str(as.list(db["uuid", ]))
List of 17 $ Package : chr "uuid" $ Version : chr "1.1-0" $ Priority : chr NA $ Depends : chr "R (>= 2.9.0)" $ Imports : chr NA $ LinkingTo : chr NA $ Suggests : chr NA $ Enhances : chr NA $ License : chr "MIT + file LICENSE" $ License_is_FOSS : chr NA $ License_restricts_use: chr NA $ OS_type : chr NA $ Archs : chr "i386, x64" $ MD5sum : chr NA $ NeedsCompilation : chr NA $ File : chr NA $ Repository : chr "https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1"
install.packages("uuid", type = "both")
And so this implies that attempts to install 'uuid' will by default fail, as type = "both" will attempt to select the non-existent binary:
install.packages("uuid", type = "both")
Installing package into ?C:/Users/kevin/r/win-library/4.1? (as ?lib? is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip' Warning in install.packages : cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip': HTTP status was '404 Not Found' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip' Warning in install.packages : download of package ?uuid? failed Are there plans to publish a binary version of this version of uuid for Windows, or does the PACKAGES database need to be updated on CRAN? For what it's worth, https://cran.r-project.org/package=uuid does indicate that the Windows binary for r-release is not available, but the link points to a non-existent ReadMe file. Thanks, Kevin