[Rd] MacOS X: update.packages(type="mac.binary") fails (PR#7836)

[Jari Oksanen]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:01 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 
> This should not be required. What does .Platform say?
> 
I couldn't let it be:

> str(.Platform)
List of 6
 $ OS.type   : chr "unix"
 $ file.sep  : chr "/"
 $ dynlib.ext: chr ".so"
 $ GUI       : chr "AQUA"
 $ endian    : chr "big"
 $ pkgType   : chr "source"
> R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18"

(After removing R.app and R.framework, re-installing from R-2.1.0.dmg,
logging out and in -- the last step helped.)

As this is "CRAN Mac OS X build" this seems to be in conflict with
documentation of 'options' "pkgType".

PS.   

download.packages("AMORE", type="source", destdir="/tmp")

works in MacOS X (or this one I have here) with any 'type'.

cheers, jari oksanen
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