[R] error in gregmisc package

[Snæbjörn Gunnsteinsson]

Thank you very much.

    I'll update my R version and see if things run more smoothly.

Best, Snaebjorn.

On Dec 26, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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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