[Rd] lubridate does not install on FreeBSD any more

[peter dalgaard]

On Jan 11, 2012, at 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?

I think that should be rather obvious. It tries to modify/define a base function and no longer gets away with that bit of bad programming citizenship. 

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