On 06/11/2009 9:49 AM, Chris Masters wrote:
> Very small patch to packages.R
>
> install.packages on an internal package repository that worked with 2.9
> failed in 2.10
>
> Problem:
>> available.packages(contriburl="
http://url.to.my/repo")
> Error in f(res) : invalid subscript type 'list'
>
> This occurred because the PACKAGES file had no dependency on R in the
> Depends field on any of the packages. Got around it by adding "Depends: R
> (>=2.7.0)" to the packages but it was still a regression from 2.9 behaviour.
Thanks. We already had a patch under way for this one, but it hadn't
made it into the code yet. (See the thread "Re: [Rd] error in
install.packages() (PR#14042)".) It has also led to some discussion of
changes to sapply, but those will be for 2.11.0, not R-patched.
Duncan
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