[R] updata.packages()

[apjaworski@mmm.com]

Something strange is happening with update.packages on my machine (Win2000,
R-1.5.0 installed from binaries).  Some of the packages (see below) keep
getting updated every time.  When I issue update.packages() I get this
every time for the last few days (I think since I installed 1.5 and the
packages but I am not sure).  This happens with CRAN shown below and also
with CRAN set to cran.r-project.org.

I checked only one of them - polynom.  It looks like the CRAN.packages
function returns the available version as 1.1-10 but the DESCRIPTION file
in the downloaded binary polynom says 1.1-8.  I am almost sure that this is
a mismatch between the precompiled versions update.packages uses on Windows
machines and the sources.  For example, the source tarball for polynom
seems to be 1.1-10.

Cheers,

Andy


> update.packages()
trying URL `http://cran.us.r-project.org//bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain' length 6560 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 6560 bytes

boot :
 Version 1.2-7 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.2-8 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
bqtl :
 Version 1.0-4 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.0-5 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
chron :
 Version 2.2-20 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 2.2-21 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
emplik :
 Version 0.4 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 0.5-1 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
foreign :
 Version 0.5-2 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 0.5-4 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
geoRglm :
 Version 0.4-3 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 0.4-4 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
logspline :
 Version 1.0-4 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.0-5 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
Matrix :
 Version 0.3-16 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 0.3-18 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
mclust :
 Version 1.1-6 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.1-7 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
mgcv :
 Version 0.7-2 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 0.8-0 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
norm :
 Version 1.0-7 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.0-8 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
polynom :
 Version 1.1-8 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.1-10 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
sgeostat :
 Version 1.0-15 in C:/R/rw1050/library
 Version 1.0-16 on CRAN
Update (y/N)?  n
>

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Andy Jaworski
Engineering Systems Technology Center
3M Center, 518-1-01
St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
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