[Rd] can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?

[A.J. Rossini]

I believe Dirk has (or will have very soon) fixed this version
problem.  

best,
-tony


Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> A package of 1.8.1 should not have a package stats.  If this is 1.9.0, you 
> should be using VR_7.2-0 or later.
>
> Someone is confused about version numbers.
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Robert King wrote:
>
>> (I'm guessing the same problem) is also present in 7.1.14-2 of the debian
>> package r-cran-vr with r-base-core 1.8.1.cvs.20040229-2
>> it can be fixed with
>> 
>> /usr/lib/R/library/MASS:
>> 
>> tolstoy:/usr/lib/R/library/MASS# diff -u NAMESPACE~ NAMESPACE
>> --- NAMESPACE~  Wed Mar 10 12:42:26 2004
>> +++ NAMESPACE   Wed Mar 10 12:42:38 2004
>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
>>  #        qda.data.frame, qda.default, qda.formula, qda.matrix,
>>  #        rlm.default, rlm.formula)
>> 
>> -importFrom(mva, biplot)
>> +importFrom(stats, biplot)
>> 
>>  S3method("[", fractions)
>>  S3method("[<-", fractions)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>> > I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem.  This happens both
>> > on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this
>> > morning, reinstalling MASS.  Is anyone else seeing this or am I just
>> > broken and special?
>> >
>> > 609$ /home/Rdevel/bin/R
>> >
>> > R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> > Version 1.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-03-04), ISBN
>> > 3-900051-00-3
>> >
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>> >
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>> >
>> > > library(MASS)
>> > Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) :
>> >         package 'mva' does not have a name space
>> > Error in library(MASS) : package/namespace load failed
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > I want to know if it's just me.
>> >
>> > best,
>> > -tony
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> 
>> ----
>> Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
>> University of Newcastle, Australia
>> Room V133  ph +61 2 4921 5548
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>> 
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Biomedical and Health Informatics   University of Washington
Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN          Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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