[Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)

[ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de]

gblevins at mn.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Full_Name: Gregory L. Blevins
> Version: 1.8
> OS: Windows 2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (65.29.54.28)
> 
> I see this when I open 1.8
> 
> Error in grep("united.states", Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE"), TRUE) :
>         5 arguments passed to "grep" which requires 6.
> 
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> Error in grep("\\[", pattern) : 5 arguments passed to "grep" which requires 6.
> > local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)})
> Error in grep("^file:", contriburl) : 5 arguments passed to "grep" which
> requires 6.
> >
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This is not a bug! It works when compiling from clean sources.

I guess you have unpacked new sources over old sources? Please clean the
directory before unpacking a new version, and try to compile again. A
couple of us ran in the same problem during the last weeks.

Uwe Ligges