[R] Bus error with xyplot

[Robert Gentleman]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:00:46AM -0500, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > From: Martin Maechler [mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]
> > 
> > >>>>> "Giovanni" == Giovanni Petris <GPetris at uark.edu>
> > >>>>>     on Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:36:06 -0600 (CST) writes:
> > 
> >     Giovanni> Has anybody else experienced something like the 
> > example below? 
> > not recently.
> > Could it be that your version of the `grid' package (which is
> > loaded by `lattice') or `lattice' are incompatible (i.e. older
> > than) to your R version?
> > After   library(lattice), use 
> >  .path.package()
> > to see where it was loaded from.
> 
> This brings up (IIRC) a topic that was discussed on R-devel a while ago:
> Version checks for required packages.  Is this feasible?  Seems quite
> worthwhile to me...

 And there has been some work on it (reposTools, under
 www.bioconductor.org), however, getting this right is not a small
 thing and has some fairly large implications that we are looking
 at. We too would like to be able to do this reliably.


  Robert

> 
> [...]
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
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