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contrib.url on OSX ?!

2 messages · stefano iacus, Sean Davis

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Sean,
if type is set to mac.binary, then the contrib url is what reported  
by Seth (and 2.3 only applies to R-devel, no binaries available at  
the moment unless you point to a repository that builds packages  
against R-devel. I think Seth is using R-devel for his test).
If you install from source, then it should not happen that you get  
"macosx" in the url, as we only have one "path" for the sources (no  
matter the architecture).
On R-2.2.0 I get
 > contrib.url('foo')
[1] "foo/bin/macosx/powerpc/contrib/2.2"
which is correct. Cran binary of CRAN reports
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.2.0, 2005-10-06, powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
so it seems to me that Sean is using a R-devel version of R-2.1.0 and  
not the final one.
The contrib.url function has been changed indeed just before official  
final release of R-2.2.0
stefano
On Nov 30, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Sean Davis wrote:

            
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On 12/1/05 3:40 AM, "stefano iacus" <jago at mclink.it> wrote:

            
Stefano,

Thanks for these details.  That is probably the issue, as this particular R
version was a devel version.

Sean