[Rd] lubridate does not install on FreeBSD any more

[Uwe Ligges]

On 11.01.2012 11:13, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> With newest R devel
>
> #sessionInfo()
> R Under development (unstable) (2012-01-10 r58085)
> Platform: amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0 (64-bit)
> locale:
> [1]
> de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/C/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> I get the following error when I try to build and install lubridate from
> sources on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (amd64):
>
> #R CMD INSTALL lubridate_0.2.6.tar.gz
> * installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/library'
> * installing *source* package 'lubridate' ...
> ** package 'lubridate' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** R
> ** data
> ** moving datasets to lazyload DB
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> During startup - Warning messages:
> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
> 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
> 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
> 4: Setting LC_PAPER failed, using "C"
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'lubridate', details:
> call: utils::assignInNamespace("+.Date", add_dates, "base")
> error: locked binding of '+.Date' cannot be changed
> Error: loading failed
> Execution halted
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/lubridate'
> * restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/library/lubridate'
>
>
> Do you have any idea what is going on here?

Yes: locked bindings cannot be changed in R-devel any more, and 
lubridate does that. The maintainer has been asked for an update already.

Uwe Ligges



>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rainer Hurling
>
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