[R] RWin 1.2.1: Can't access sample datasets, e.g. MASS

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, peter denisevich wrote:

> This is the description file from the version of pkg. VR/MASS that I just
> downloaded (Feb 6, 2001) from CRAN.  Looks as though the new build didn't
> get through to CRAN/Windows.
>
> Package: MASS
> Description: The main library.
> Title: Main Library of Venables and Ripley's MASS
> Bundle: VR
> Version: 6.2-3
> Date: 2000/11/30
> Depends: R (>= 1.1)
> Author: S original by Venables & Ripley.
>    R port by Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>, following earlier
>    work by Kurt Hornik and Albrecht Gebhardt.
> BundleDescription: Various functions from the libraries of Venables and
>    Ripley, `Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS' (3rd edition).
> License: GPL (version 2 or later)
> URL: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/
> Built: R 1.2.0;  Win32;  2001-01-04 08:51:17
>                                ^^^^^

Well, nothing much I can do about that.  The site it supposedly mirrors,
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin,  has the Jan 8th version.
I'll touch it and see if that triggers a fetch.

BDR

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