[Rd] R 2.0.0: problem: installing --with-package-versions

[Matthias Burger]

Hello R developers,

installing R 2.0.0 from source on a Linux Debian system (gcc 3.2.2)
  - which worked just fine - I encountered the following problem when trying to
update/install packages with the option --with-package-versions:

example: RUnit 0.4.0 (also on CRAN)

R20 CMD INSTALL -l /mnt/local/R/R-2.0.x-libs-EpiR --with-package-versions 
RUnit_0.4.0.tar.gz

or after untaring
R20 CMD INSTALL -l /mnt/local/R/R-2.0.x-libs-EpiR --with-package-versions RUnit

I get
* Installing *source* package 'RUnit' as 'RUnit_0.4.0' ...
** R
** inst
** save image
Error in loadNamespace(package, lib.loc, keep.source, TRUE, TRUE) :
         package 'RUnit' does not have a name space
Execution halted
ERROR: execution of package source for 'RUnit' failed

This happens only with the --with-package-versions option.
I scanned the manual and ?INSTALL but did not find mention of this behaviour.

Any suggestion what I have overlooked or how to cure the failure?


Regards,

   Matthias


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platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    0.0
year     2004
month    10
day      04
language R

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Matthias Burger                     Project Manager/ Biostatistician
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