[R] Patches for DBI/RMySQL "valueClass" problem?

[Barnet Wagman]

Thank you.  The copy of M.Kondrin's email that I received was truncated, 
so I don't know what he suggested.  This should get me going.

Regards,

Barnet Wagman

David James wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I think yesterday's email from M.Kondrin's <mkondrin at hppi.troitsk.ru> 
>summarizes two alternatives (1 and 2 below); of course you can also 
>use R-1.7.1.  To recap, I think you have 3 easy choices (at least):  
>
>(1) install R-patched from 
>    ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-patched.tar.gz
>
>(2) Or add the line 
>        export(.valueClassTest) 
>    to the file $R_HOME/src/library/methods/NAMESPACE
>    (where $R_HOME is the directory where you installed R-1.8.0)
>
>(3) Or revert back to R 1.7.1
> 
>Hope this helps,
>
>--
>David
>
>Barnet Wagman wrote:
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>>According David Jame's response to my earlier question, there is a 
>>problem with setGeneric.setMethod in R 1.8.0 that affects DBI and RMySQL. 
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>>Is there a fix for this?  David Jame's refers to an 'R-patched version' 
>>but I haven't seen anything like this on  CRAN.  Would going back to an 
>>older version of R solve the problem?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Barnet Wagman
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>>"David James wrote:
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>>However, there is a problem in the released version of R 1.8.0 that affects
>>the DBI and other packages (has something to do with methods
>>that use the "valueClass" argument in the setGeneric/setMethod functions).
>>In this case one needs to use the R-patched version. "
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