[R] library() error?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:

> hi,
>
> i just upgraded to R1.4.1 on a windoze 2000 machine. (i first
> uninstalled R1.3.1.) after running SetupR, i did packages/install from
> cran..., selected all packages, which appears to have installed
> fine. now when i type
>
> library()
>
> i get the error message
>
> Error in rbind(...) : number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 2)
>
> according to help(library), this is supposed to give me a list of all
> available packages, not? is this a known problem? do we know of a fix?

Yes, it supposed to, but perhaps one of those packages is not up-to-date in
its information files.  The Windows contributed section does contain some
obselete packages.

I suggest you start again, and only install the packages you actually
need.

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