[R] Change in downloading packages

[A.J. Rossini]

This makes no sense to me.  "Clicking" where?  Sounds like you've
installed one of the unix winzip act-a-likes, i.e. guitar or karchiver
or similar...



Jim Lemon <jim.lemon at uts.edu.au> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I sent an earlier message concerning this, but perhaps I wasn't clear enough. 
> Up until about a month ago, I downloaded packages by clicking on the filename 
> of the package. Now this action leads me to a directory listing, e.g.:
>
> drwxr-xr-x hornik/users      0 2002-03-20 18:00:54 npmc/
> -rw-r--r-- hornik/users    314 2002-03-20 11:33:42 npmc/DESCRIPTION
> -rw-r--r-- hornik/users    202 2002-03-20 11:49:40 npmc/INDEX
> -rwxr--r-- hornik/users     99 2002-03-20 12:18:34 npmc/build
> drwxr-xr-x hornik/users      0 2002-03-20 12:18:15 npmc/man/
> ...
>
> from which I cannot download anything. It now appears necessary to FTP to:
>
> cran.r-project.org
>
> (or a suitable mirror) change to the:
>
> pub/R/src/contrib
>
> directory and download the package. While I appreciate the functionality of 
> install.packages(), one has to be connected to the Internet to use it, and I 
> have one old laptop that I use for remote work that has no such connection. 
> Downloading the source package is much more convenient than rebuilding a 
> package myself from the source code to upgrade this PC. I think that this 
> change should at least be announced with a suggestion for a suitable 
> workaround for those who need the actual source package.
>
> R-1.8.0 on
> RedHat Linux 7.2
>
> Jim
>
> Feel free to ignore any garbage beneath this line.
>
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