Question about installation from pre-built binaries

[sebffischer]

The installation guide mentions that it is possible to install torch from pre-built binaries on linux, but when following the installation instructions, I get:

install.packages("torch", type = "binary")
Error in install.packages("torch", type = "binary") : 
  type 'binary' is not supported on this platform

Does this only work on specific linux distributions or should this work in general?
I get the same results on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 22.04

[sebffischer]

So the problem is that .Platform$pkgType shows "source"

[dfalbel]

I recently updated this to type="binary" unaware of this error on Linux.
If you do install.packages("torch") after setting up the repository, you should get the pre-built binaries anyway in all platforms.

[sebffischer]

Thanks for the quick response! :) What do you think abou trunning the installation instructions in the CI to ensure that they are working?

[dfalbel]

I think that would be nice, although they shouldn't change much.
I don't remember why I did this change 547b564 unfortunatelly.