Thanks for the note. There was a case of cyclic dependencies . Is there a
way to make the error message a bit more transparent (for those of us who
are a bit slow to figure it out)?


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> It means that when trying to prepare this "anonymous" package (ppiStats?)
> for lazy loading, it is already loaded.
>
> Most likely you have a dependency cycle amongst the namespaces.
>
> The ppiStats on BioC 2.2 has a very long list of dependencies, but does
> load under R-devel.
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Tony Chiang wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > While the package with which I am working is apart of the Bioconductor
> > project, I think that this might be a better forum to ask my question. I
> > have recently updated one of my packages, and then tried to build it
> using
> > R-devel, but I get the following error message:
> >
> > ################
> > -----snip----
> > Loading required package: lattice
> > Loading required package: RColorBrewer
> > Error in code2LazyLoadDB(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, keep.source =
> > keep.source,  :
> >  name space must not be loaded.
> > Calls: <Anonymous> -> code2LazyLoadDB
> > Execution halted
> > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ppiStats'
> >
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-02-10 r44415)
> > i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
> >
> > locale:
> > C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> > ##################
> >
> > I can build the package with R 2.6.2 Patched and also install. The error
> > message is not too helpful to let me figure out what is happening, but
> the
> > only obvious thing that I can see is that my RColorBrewer packages are
> > different for R patched (RColorBrewer_1.0-1) and R devel
> > (RColorBrewer_1.0-2).  Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how
> to
> > fix this ?
> >
> > Best,
> > --Tony
> >
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