[R] Problem installing SparseM on Debian stable

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You need to find a version of SparseM in the CRAN archive of comparable 
age to your R version (nearly two years),

*or*, much better, update your R to 1.9.0 (or the current patched version)

Hint to maintainers of packages using S4 methods: you almost certainly 
need to declare a dependence on a rather recent version of R since the 
methods code has changed a lot in the last two years.

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Felix Salfner wrote:

> I have troubles installing the "SparseM" package on my Debian stable 
> Linux system.
> 
> Debian's version of R is:
> platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i386
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i386, linux-gnu
> status
> major    1
> minor    5.1
> year     2002
> month    06
> day      17
> language R

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