[R] How to check the available of a package on R repo

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 18, 2010, at 12:28 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> I try to find out whether Emacs/ESS is available on R repo.  What is  
> its
> versiohn?

There is no R repository that distributes Emacs. Emacs and the ESS  
package  (for Emacs) are not part of R. You choose your version of  
Emacs and get it from wherever that versions resides.

-- 
David.

>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu>
> To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Sat, September 18, 2010 12:01:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] How to check the available of a package on R repo
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
> Did you look at the arguments for
> the first argument of ?available.packages ?
>
> What did you expect "emacs" to do?
>
>
> On 09/17/2010 10:20 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Debian 504 64-bit
>>
>> What is the correct syntax to check the available of a package on R  
>> repo?
>>
>>> available.packages("emacs", "OS_type=linux")
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository emacs
>>      Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests  
>> Enhances
>>      OS_type License File Repository
>>
>>> available.packages("emacs")
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository emacs
>>      Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests  
>> Enhances
>>      OS_type License File Repository
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> B.R.
>> Stephen L
>>
>>
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT