OK. Sorry to have bothered you. It may well have been the namespace issue, a subtlety that I would have been unaware of. Thanks. I've cc'ed this to r-bugs in case there is anything they wish to do about it.
-- Bert Gunter > -----Original Message----- > From: Deepayan Sarkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:05 PM > To: Berton Gunter > Subject: Re: Lattice update error > > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 13:51, you wrote: > > Deepayan: > > > > I believe you are the lattice package maintainer and so should > > receive this: > > > > I just received the following error on trying to update the lattice > > package: (Win2K, R 2.0.1) > > > > Error: Can not remove prior installation of package 'lattice' > > > > The prior installation was the immediately preceding > lattice version. > > I then had to exit R and manually delete lattice from the library > > directory (I could not do it when R was open, even though > lattice was > > not on my search list). I then restarted R and installed lattice > > without problems. > > Well, I don't see how this can be due to a bug in lattice. If you can > reproduce this, you should probably report it to r-devel. > > I'm not sure how update.packages() works on Windows, but this > might be a > permissions problem, or maybe you had some package loaded that was > using the lattice namespace (like nlme, for instance), in > which case it > wouldn't show up on the search path even though it were in use. > > Deepayan > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel