[BioC] flowCore: Prerequisites for norm2Filter?

[M. Jankowski]

On 8/11/07, Byron Ellis <byron.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the backtrace it looks like the problem is in the covMcd method
> implemented by rrcov (which we merely use). Did you try using the
> cov.rob method to see if you get a similar crash? You might also want
> to check your rrcov version to see if a newer one is available from
> CRAN.
>
My newbieness to R is showing. How would I set up a test to check the
rrcov method? My other question is how do I do a version check for
rrcov? I'm running the CRAN 2.5.1 versioin of R on Ubuntu...but don't
know how to check for a package version.

Thanks for your help!
Matt