From Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at  Fri Jun  2 16:00:19 2006
From: Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:00:19 +0200
Subject: [Rd] task view errors
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Message-ID: <20060602160019.2fd2f0ff.Achim.Zeileis@wu-wien.ac.at>

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.

> 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



[Rd] task view errors
Achim Zeileis