On 24 October 2006 at 16:30, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > There are interdependencies between the R binary and the dynamically loaded | > libraries it loads. By upgrading R, you have agreed to the Faustian bargain | > of potentially having to upgrade these libraries too. | > | > So reinstalling foreign from CRAN should do. R can do that for you, see | > help("update.packages") | > and make sure you also have r-base-dev installed as this will cover most if | > not all of the tools | | But since foreign is part of R, installing a new version of R will update | the standard and recommended packages including foreign. So this suggests | that what is being picked up is another copy of foreign from another | library.
Good point. As I recall, Christian always builds a sumo 'r-recommends' package which Bjorn should install from the same apt-get'able archive on CRAN. Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.