[R] contrib.url binary paths inconsistent

[Uwe Ligges]

Paul Roebuck wrote:

> Binary distribution [Windows]
> -----------------------------
> 
>>contrib.url(getOption("CRAN"))
> 
> [1] "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.9"

Correct.


> Binary distribution [Mac OS X]
> -----------------------------
> 
>>contrib.url(getOption("CRAN"), type = "mac.binary")
> 
> [1] "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/1.9"

Correct. (In particular, there *must not* be .../contrib/... in the Mac 
version!)

Uwe Ligges


> 
> 
> Possible update for Mac OS X version:
> 
> contrib.url <-
> function(CRAN, type = c("source", "mac.binary")) {
>     type <- match.arg(type)
>     ver <- paste(R.version$major,
>                  substring(R.version$minor, 1, 1),
>                  sep = ".")
>     switch(type,
>            source =     file.path(CRAN, "src", "contrib"),
>            mac.binary = file.path(CRAN, "bin", "macosx", "contrib", ver))
> }
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)
> 
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