well, i don't really want to do this from within R, if i can help it; i'd rather fit it into my pre-existing system for building RPMs of R packages. is there a compelling reason not to just enable virtual directories for the repository on the website? CRAN permits anonymous ftp access, which is another acceptable solution. On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:51, Robert Gentleman wrote: > What about something as simple as download.packages2, > which kind of takes care of what you want, from within R > > Robert > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Cooper Bethea wrote: > > hi folks- > > i'd like to build rpms of the bioconductor packages, but it's a total > > pain in the ass to get the sources because the repositories specified in > > the reposTools documentation (like > > http://bioconductor.org/repository/release1.3/package/ ) have directory > > listings disabled (at least for me in mozilla). > > > > would it be possible to maintain a page with a simple list of links to > > the most current released version of each package in bioconductor? it > > sucks to have to crawl through the main website to get bioconductor > > tarballs. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/attachments /20031107/df4a7da3/attachment.bin