[Rd] update.packages fails again (PR#972)

[Torsten Hothorn]

> It's happened again:
> 
> exactRankTests_0.4-2.tar.gz has
> 
> Depends: R > 1.3.0
> 
> which is not only impossible, but breaks update.packages.

I'm sorry! exactRankTests_0.4-4.tar.gz is now in incoming and 
Depends: R (>= 1.2.3)

Torsten

> 
> How can we test for this?
> 
> Unfortunately once such a package is installed, it has to be manually
> uninstalled before update.packages will work again.
> 
> *PLEASE* can people read the manual to get the syntax right: it is
> 
> Depends: R (>= 1.3.0)
> 
> but such packages should not be in the main part of CRAN yet.
> 
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