From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Fri Jun  2 16:52:40 2006
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:52:40 +0200
Subject: [Rd] task view errors
In-Reply-To: <20060602160019.2fd2f0ff.Achim.Zeileis@wu-wien.ac.at>
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	<20060602160019.2fd2f0ff.Achim.Zeileis@wu-wien.ac.at>
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Achim Zeileis wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> ctv is a contributed package...
> 
> 
>>I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use
>>task views.  Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility?
> 
> 
> No.
> I'll see whether there is an easy way to keep install.views() from
> installing Windows-only packages on non-Windows machines.


Currently, you cannot know automatically if a package works *only* on 
Windows (or whatever OS else). We have had this discussion before, and 
yes, it would be nice to have some additional DESCRIPTION field for 
OS/platform restrictions. But then it is difficult to have some unique 
identifiers and to get the information from the OS. And then people 
might want to do cross-platform stuff and so on.

Uwe


> 
>>Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are
>>in a view, but I haven't found it.
> 
> 
> e.g., via:
>   R> x <- available.views()
>   R> x[[1]]$packagelist
> 
> Best,
> Z
> 
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[Rd] task view errors
Uwe Ligges