[R] R 2.13.1 can't find package binaries on R-Forge

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Michael Friendly wrote:

> [Env: Win XP]
> I've just upgraded from R 2.12.2 to R 2.13.1.  As part of my upgrade
> process, I typically install some in-development
> packages from R-Forge that are not on cran.  But for the first time,  
> it
> doesn't work.
>
> e.g.,
>> install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> trying URL
> 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/p3d_0.02-2.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =  
> available,  :
>   download of package 'p3d' failed
>
> The list of packages I install this way is:
>
> special <- c("p3d", "patchDVI", "spacemakeR", "spida")
> install.packages(special,repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>
>
> Is this just an R-Forge problem?

I'm not informed about the workings of r-forge, but did you notice  
that there were no packages in that bin/windows directory whose  
alphabetical collation would be after lowercase "i". That seems to  
suggest some sort of system error encountered before the next package  
after "ipreds" was completed.

On the project page the binaries for windows are listed as "offline".

https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=431

I don't see any C modules in the source. Have you tried installing  
from source?

-- 
David.


> The source packages are there, but not
> the windows binaries.  The log files
> are uninformative:
>
>
>    p3d log file (build_win64)
>
> Sun Jul 31 00:28:31 2011: Building binary for package p3d (SVN  
> revision 19)
> using R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-22 r56481) ...
>
> Package up to date. Not building ...
>
>
>
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