From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Thu Nov  2 13:58:47 2006
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:58:47 -0500
Subject: [Rd] CRAN task views work only once per session (PR#9330)
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They run without problem and are identical on my XP machine too:

> library(ctv)
> x <- available.views(repos = "http://CRAN.uk.R-project.org")
>  y <- available.views(repos = "http://CRAN.uk.R-project.org")
> identical(x,y)
[1] TRUE
> R.version.string # XP
[1] "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-24 r39722)"


On 11/2/06, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:
> One comment - taken from the FAQ - in advance:
>  Bug reports on contributed packages should be sent first to the package
>  maintainer, and only submitted to the R-bugs repository by package
>  maintainers, mentioning the package in the subject line.
>
> In this case, posting to R-devel (but not R-bugs) and Cc to me (as the
> maintainer of ctv) would also have been ok.
>
> As for your problem: On my Linux machine, the code
>
>  library("ctv")
>  x <- available.views(repos = "http://CRAN.uk.R-project.org")
>  y <- available.views(repos = "http://CRAN.uk.R-project.org")
>
> runs without any problem, x and y are also identical afterwards. As I
> haven't got a Windows XP machine, could someone on the list please run the
> code above and confirm (or disconfirm) that the second call takes longer
> and finally finds no views.
>
> thx in advance,
> Z
>
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[Rd] CRAN task views work only once per session (PR#9330)
Gabor Grothendieck