From edd at debian.org  Wed Jan 31 19:34:07 2018
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:34:07 -0600
Subject: [Rd] CRAN indices out of whack (for at least macOS)
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Bumping this as we now have two more issue tickets filed and a fresh SO
question.

Is anybody looking at this? Simon?

Dirk

On 30 January 2018 at 15:19, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| I have received three distinct (non-)bug reports where someone claimed a
| recent package of mine was broken ... simply because the macOS binary was not
| there.
| 
| Is there something wrong with the cronjob providing the indices? Why is it
| pointing people to binaries that do not exist?
| 
| Concretely, file
| 
|   https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES
| 
| contains
| 
|   Package: digest
|   Version: 0.6.15
|   Title: Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects
|   Depends: R (>= 2.4.1)
|   Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
|   Built: R 3.4.3; x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0; 2018-01-29 05:21:06 UTC; unix
|   Archs: digest.so.dSYM
| 
| yet the _same directory_ only has:
| 
|   digest_0.6.14.tgz	15-Jan-2018 21:36	157K
| 
| I presume this is a temporary accident.
| 
| We are all spoiled by you all providing such a wonderfully robust and
| well-oiled service---so again big THANKS for that--but today something is out
| of order.
| 
| Dirk
| 
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[Rd] CRAN indices out of whack (for at least macOS)
Dirk Eddelbuettel