[Rd] mgcv in R-2.4.0.alpha

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:56:24 -0400 writes:

    Kjetil> Hola!
    Kjetil> I am sending this to the list since emails from me to Simon Wood
    Kjetil> has bounced earlier.

    Kjetil> I get:

    >> library(tsDyn)
    Kjetil> Loading required package: mgcv
    Kjetil> Erro en `parent.env<-`(`*tmp*`, value = NULL) :
    Kjetil> use of NULL environment is defunct
    Kjetil> Error: package 'mgcv' could not be loaded
    >> library(mgcv)
    Kjetil> Erro en `parent.env<-`(`*tmp*`, value = NULL) :
    Kjetil> use of NULL environment is defunct
    Kjetil> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'mgcv'
    Kjetil> But in the package check summary on CRAN mgcv
    Kjetil> gets OK.

Yes, because it *is* ok.
I'm pretty sure you are getting an old version of 'mgcv' instead
of the correct one.

Look at the result of 
 ll <- library()
 ll$res[ll$res[,1] == "mgcv" ,]

    >> sessionInfo()
    Kjetil> R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365)
    Kjetil> i386-pc-mingw32

    Kjetil> locale:
    Kjetil> LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Bolivia.1252;LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Bolivia.1252;LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Bolivia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Spanish_Bolivia.1252

    Kjetil> attached base packages:
    Kjetil> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
    Kjetil> [7] "base"

    Kjetil> Kjetil B Halvorsen

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           (I thought you would know better ...)
Martin