From dtenenba at fhcrc.org  Tue Mar 27 18:48:37 2012
From: dtenenba at fhcrc.org (Dan Tenenbaum)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:48:37 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Missing Windows binary for R-2.15RC?
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12-03-24 2:31 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> On 12-03-24 10:53 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24.03.2012 06:58, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Dan Tenenbaum [mailto:dtenenba at fhcrc.org]
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 5:48 PM
>>>>>> To: Daniel Nordlund
>>>>>> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Missing Windows binary for R-2.15RC?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Nordlund
>>>>>> <djnordlund at frontier.com> ? ?wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> project.org]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Behalf Of Dan Tenenbaum
>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:21 PM
>>>>>>>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>>>>> Subject: [Rd] Missing Windows binary for R-2.15RC?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The page
>>>>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html
>>>>>>>> has a link to:
>>>>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.15.0rc-win.exe
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, clicking on that link gives a 404 "Object not found' error.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> FYI.
>>>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I experienced the same error you did using the link you provided.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ? However, if you use the CRAN mirror hosted by YOUR organization, you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> get the file. :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think so:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.15.0rc-win.exe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gives me a 404 as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't look closely enough at what you were asking for (RC versus
>>>>> beta). ?R-2.15RC may not have been up-loaded yet. ?However, I just
>>>>> downloaded it from the original link that was posted, so it appears to be
>>>>> available now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It may have happened that the scripts generated the webpages before the
>>>> binary was built and checked (since "beta" became "rc" yesterday).
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, they need manual tweaking at the conversion, and I did it after the
>>> first upload.
>>>
>>> If this happens again (which is pretty likely), you can manually download
>>> the previous version by editing the URL to put in "alpha" in place of
>>> "beta", or "beta" in place of "rc".
>>>
>>
>> ... or have a fixed name instead (on OS X we just use 2.15-branch which is
>> unambiguous). For the record I find it extremely annoying that even the
>> installation target name changes in the installer - I keep having to change
>> it to R-2.15 all the time, because I don't see why you would want to have
>> alpha/beta/rc/release of the same R version installed in separate
>> directories by default ?- but that may be just me ;). To a lesser degree the
>> same applies to patch versions, but since those are released I could see an
>> argument for that, even though in practice I think it is not useful either
>> (because typically you just want to upgrade and not another copy).
>
>
> I'm neutral about the name changes, but I don't think any of this is enough
> of a problem to be worth the time to fix. ?If someone else wants to do it,
> then I'd be happy to let you take over.
>

Thanks all of you for looking into this. Bioconductor usually needs
the binaries as soon as they are available so if there is a
sustainable way to solve this, we'd appreciate it very much.

Dan


>
> Duncan Murdoch
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[Rd] Missing Windows binary for R-2.15RC?
Dan Tenenbaum