[R] R-forge getting the wrong package

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> After accusing someone of typing 'install.packages("weather")' instead
> of 'install.packages("webmaps")', I discovered that R-forge really is
> currently returning the wrong source tarball for packages after
> 'Repitools' in the alphabet.

>  I'm hypothesizing it's in the way the PACKAGES file is being
> constructed, but haven't tested that hypothesis yet - I'm sure the
> R-forge admins will fix this.

Stefan Theussl has now fixed this, so if anyone wants to try
install.packages("webmaps",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") they
now can, without getting the 'weather' package installed instead.

Barry