[Rd] CRAN: No MacOS X binary builds since January 7

Tue Jan 19 19:53:47 CET 2010

Thanks,

the "universal" MacOS X binaries are now updated/built, which are what
the CRAN package pages refer to.

Just for others information: I've been emailing offline with Simon U
("maintainer"), and it turns out that my initial posts to him
regarding these issues went into his spam folder.  Without wanting to
raise expectations of his responsiveness, he basically said if you
don't get a reply within a few days, your post most likely ended up in
his spam folder.  May be good to know.

/Henrik

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:53 , Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
>> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not an issue for *this* list!
>>
>> I used this list to share this with package developers - not
>> particularly MacOS X users.  As a package provider  I'd like to know
>> when packages are not available on all platforms.  It seems like a
>> errors, because the records show that packages are typically built
>> every day.
>>
>>>
>>> Please report to the maintainer and perhaps cc R-sig-mac.
>>
>> Maintainer has been notified repeatably without response (==don't know
>> if my messages even gets through).
>>
>
> I wonder where you were sending your notifications -- quite apparently not
> to the right place as I didn't get any ...
>
> Anyway, now that it reached me (through suboptimal channels as Brian pointed
> out) it should be fixed for the next run.
>
>
>>>  Note that you are
>>> looking at the (old) Tiger binaries and not the more current Leopard
>>> ones,
>>> which were last updated yesterday,
>>
>> Thanks for this note.  As a non-OSX user, I wasn't aware of this.  It
>> made me find:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/r-release/
>>
>> This is not the directory that are used for the MacOS X links when
>> going to package pages under http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/,
>> e.g.
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/aroma.core/
>>
>> The MacOS X links is:
>>
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/r-release/aroma.core_1.3.1.tgz
>>
>> Another example is here:
>>
>>  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/biglars/
>>
>> Then, do the MacOS X links on the CRAN package pages need to be
>> updated/complemented?
>>
>
> I think so -- there is currently a discrepancy - the checks show Leopard
> builds but that link is to the Tiger build -- Kurt, can you, please, check?
>
>
>> If this is already well known, that is all I need to hear.  (I
>> understand that install.packages() takes care of the installation).
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
>>>
>>> In any case, binary packages are a privilege and you can always install
>>> from
>>> the sources (in the vast majority of cases with no extra tools other than
>>> Xcode).
>>>
>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI,
>>>>
>>>> no MacOS X binaries have been built for CRAN since 2010-01-07:
>>>>
>>>>> url <-
>>>>> "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/r-release/";
>>>>> x <- readLines(url);
>>>>
>>>> pattern <- ".*([0-9]{2}-[A-Za-z]{3}-[0-9]{4}) ([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}).*";
>>>> y <- grep(pattern, x, value=TRUE);
>>>> y <- grep("PACKAGE", y, invert=TRUE, value=TRUE);
>>>> z <- gsub(pattern, "\\1", y);
>>>> z <- unique(z);
>>>> z <- as.Date(z, "%d-%b-%Y");
>>>> z <- sort(z);
>>>> print(z);
>>>>>
>>>>> pattern <- ".*([0-9]{2}-[A-Za-z]{3}-[0-9]{4}) ([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}).*";
>>>>> y <- grep(pattern, x, value=TRUE);
>>>>> y <- grep("PACKAGE", y, invert=TRUE, value=TRUE);
>>>>> z <- gsub(pattern, "\\1", y);
>>>>> z <- unique(z);
>>>>> z <- as.Date(z, "%d-%b-%Y");
>>>>> z <- sort(z);
>>>>> print(z);
>>>>
>>>> [1] "2009-07-18" "2009-07-19" "2009-10-02" "2009-10-16" "2009-10-27"
>>>> [6] "2009-10-28" "2009-10-29" "2009-10-30" "2009-10-31" "2009-11-02"
>>>> [11] "2009-11-04" "2009-11-05" "2009-11-06" "2009-11-07" "2009-11-09"
>>>> [16] "2009-11-10" "2009-11-11" "2009-11-12" "2009-11-13" "2009-11-14"
>>>> [21] "2009-11-16" "2009-11-17" "2009-11-18" "2009-11-19" "2009-11-20"
>>>> [26] "2009-11-21" "2009-11-23" "2009-11-24" "2009-11-25" "2009-11-26"
>>>> [31] "2009-11-27" "2009-11-28" "2009-11-30" "2009-12-01" "2009-12-02"
>>>> [36] "2009-12-03" "2009-12-04" "2009-12-07" "2009-12-08" "2009-12-10"
>>>> [41] "2009-12-11" "2009-12-12" "2009-12-14" "2009-12-15" "2009-12-16"
>>>> [46] "2009-12-17" "2009-12-18" "2009-12-19" "2009-12-21" "2009-12-22"
>>>> [51] "2009-12-23" "2009-12-24" "2009-12-25" "2009-12-27" "2009-12-29"
>>>> [56] "2009-12-30" "2009-12-31" "2010-01-02" "2010-01-03" "2010-01-04"
>>>> [61] "2010-01-05" "2010-01-06" "2010-01-07"
>>>>>
>>>>> print(table(diff(z)));
>>>>
>>>> 1  2  3 11 14 75
>>>> 46 12  1  1  1  1
>>>>
>>>> /Henrik
>>>>
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