[R] Fwd: CRAN problem with plyr-1.4.1

[Uwe Ligges]

On 12.04.2011 17:29, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> Then, can we have the ERROR message, please?
>> Otherwise the only explanation I can guess is that a mirror grabs the
>> contents of a repository exactly in the second the repository is updated and
>> that is unlikely, particularly if more than one mirror is involved.
>
> Isn't one possible explanation that PACKAGES.gz on the mirror was
> updated before the package directory was?

It is in the same directory.

Uwe

> That would seem to me a
> plausible hypothesis to me, because rsync seems to send files in the
> top level directory before files in directories below.
>
> Hadley
>