Message-ID: <m2ty0l267z.fsf@80-218-244-59.dclient.hispeed.ch>
Date: 2012-04-15T00:23:28Z
From: Marius Hofert
Subject: What happened to the vignette of 'parallel'?
In-Reply-To: <20362.4840.971288.615105@max.nulle.part> (Dirk Eddelbuettel's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:14:32 -0500")
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:
> On 15 April 2012 at 02:03, Marius Hofert wrote:
> | I am looking for the latest version of the vignette of 'parallel'. I can't find
> | it (not on CRAN, not via vignette()). How can I obtain it?
>
> What operating system?
Mac OS X 10.7.3
>
>
> The Debian / Ubuntu binary packages have it in both the source package and
> the binary:
>
> edd at max:~$ dpkg -L r-base-core | grep parallel.pdf
> /usr/lib/R/library/parallel/doc/parallel.pdf
Ah... I checked my library and saw that 'parallel' did not exist there. Although
it comes natively with R (afaik), I tried to install it to see if I have the
same subfolder with the vignette:
,----
| install.packages("parallel", type="source")
| Installing package(s) into ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/library?
| (as ?lib? is unspecified)
| Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.ch.r-project.org/src/contrib
| Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.bioconductor.org/src/contrib
| Warning message:
| package ?parallel? is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
| >
`----
When will 'parallel' be available for 2.15?
>
> edd at max:~$
>
> I'll shoot a copy off-list.
>
> Dirk