[R] error installing 2.0.1 '.install_package_description'

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:37:03PM -0700, Cary Miller wrote:
> Dear R,
>   I am attempting to install 2.0.1 on a Debian system and getting an error
> that appeared for people installing 2.0.0.
> 
> Warning message:
> package seems to be using lazy loading already in:
> makeLazyLoading("tools")
> Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : variable
> ".install_package_description" was not found
> Execution halted

Could you please tell us with more precision
-- what you were trying to install, and
-- how you were attempting it?

The error message is non-informative.

Dirk


> 
> 
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    1
> minor    9.0
> 
> 
> ?????
>   Thanks
> 
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