[R] Re: Problem with mgcv PACKAGES file format?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:27:48PM +1000, Robert King wrote:
> Problem solved.
> 
> This is a bad interaction of packages installed from debian with the R
> update.packages() system.
> 
> Moral of the story is don't try to update.packges() for any of the
> packages installed as r-cran-package.name.here debian packages.

Ah, yes, that is an achilles heel, and I am not sure how to handle that.
That may remain a problen.

Dirk

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