>>>>> "MWK" == Mark W Kimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:14:30 -0500 writes:
MWK> Switched back to R-devel tonight after using R-2.6.1 for awhile and when MWK> I updated my devel packages Matrix installation failed. Not critical for MWK> me but thought I should report it. I am using Ubuntu Gusty AMD64 OS. MWK> Tail of install output and sessionInfo follows. Mark MWK> Loading required package: methods MWK> Loading required package: lattice MWK> Attaching package: 'Matrix' MWK> The following object(s) are masked from package:stats : MWK> xtabs MWK> Error in new("dgCMatrix") : MWK> trying to generate an object from a virtual class ("dgCMatrix") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ MWK> Calls: <Anonymous> ... eval.parent -> eval -> eval -> eval -> eval -> MWK> new -> .Call MWK> Execution halted MWK> ERROR: installing package indices failed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ MWK> ** Removing '/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/site-library/Matrix' MWK> ** Restoring previous '/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/site-library/Matrix' MWK> The downloaded packages are in MWK> /tmp/RtmpJviXfF/downloaded_packages MWK> Warning message: MWK> In install.packages("Matrix") : MWK> installation of package 'Matrix' had non-zero exit status >> sessionInfo() MWK> R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-01-29 r44238) MWK> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Thank you, Mark, for the report. Indeed --- to my own very big astonishment --- I *can* reproduce the problem. In the above messages, it's pretty funny that "dgCMatrix" is said to be a virtual class (which it is clearly not from the Matrix source). The "daily" CRAN package checks don't show the problem yet, but the checks' R version is >> R 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-01-27 r44199) which is a bit older, than the one you used (and even older than the one I used ..... r44258) I'm pretty sure I know around where the problem appeared.. More on this later. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel