[R] error in gregmisc package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> Snæbjörn Gunnsteinsson wrote:
>
>>    I just installed the gregmisc bundle. When I do library(gdata)  (or 
>> library(gtools), library(gmodels)) everything works fine.
>> 
>> When I do library(gplots) I get
>> 
>>      Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 1850
>>      Error in library(gplots) : package/namespace load failed
>> 
>> I'm using R-1.7.0 on Mac OS 10.3.
>
> That's very old and probably does'nt know about namesapces?

It does: they were introduced for packages other than base in 1.7.0.
However, that line is

     m[[1]] <- graphics:::plot.formula

and the ::: operator was introduced in 1.8.0 and package `graphics' in 
1.9.0.

>> Can anybody help me with this? Could I be doing something wrong or is there
>> an error in the package (related to R-1.7.0, or Mac OS X or in general)?

gregmisc should have a dependence on R>=1.9.0 (at least).  It won't be the 
only package that does not have such a dependence, including many of those 
introduced since 1.7.0 came out (over two years ago) as people tend not to 
test on past versions of R.


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