[R] problem with R start up MASS and family?

[Roger D. Peng]

What version of the VR package are you using?  Do you see the problem 
after running update.packages()?

-roger

Jonathan M. Lees wrote:
> Dear fellow R-users:
> 
> Is this a BUG?
> 
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> Error: object 'family' not found whilst loading namespace 'MASS'
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
> 
> 
> it goes away if I move .RData to something else and then load it up again.
> What gives?
> 
> 
>  > R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i686-redhat-linux-gnu"
> 
> $arch
> [1] "i686"
> 
> $os
> [1] "linux-gnu"
> 
> $system
> [1] "i686, linux-gnu"
> 
> $status
> [1] ""
> 
> $major
> [1] "1"
> 
> $minor
> [1] "9.1"
> 
> $year
> [1] "2004"
> 
> $month
> [1] "06"
> 
> $day
> [1] "21"
> 
> $language
> [1] "R"
> 
>  >
> 
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