[Rd] RE: Lattice update error (PR#7423)

[gunter.berton at gene.com]

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:deepayan at stat.wisc.edu] 
> 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
> 
>