[Rd] rw2000dev: problems with library(foreign)

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Fri Sep 24 17:48:20 CEST 2004


Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> Martin Maechler wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil at acelerate.com>
>>>>>>>    on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:10:39 -0400 writes:
>>>>>>>           
>>
>>
>>    Kjetil> I get the following
>>    >> library(foreign)
>>    Kjetil> Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) : undefined
>>    Kjetil> exports: write.foreign Error in library(foreign) :
>>    Kjetil> package/namespace load failed for 'foreign'
>>
>>    Kjetil> with rw2000dev as of (2004-09-17
>>
>> Does
>>  > system.file(package="foreign")
>>
>> give the same initial path as
>>  > system.file(package="base")
>>
>> ?
>>
>> If yes, I cannot help further;
>> if no,  this explains the problem:  you're picking up a wrong
>> version of the  foreign package.
>>  
>>
> 
>  > system.file(package="foreign")
> [1] "C:/R/rw2000dev/library/foreign"
>  > system.file(package="base")
> [1] "C:/R/rw2000dev/library/base"


Works for me with the recent beta (both with my own as well as with 
Duncan's build).
Kjetil, can you please try out the recent build?

Thanks!

Uwe


> Kjetil
> 
>> Regards,
>> Martin



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