[R] update.packages() with R 2.0.0

[Uwe Ligges]

Joseph J. Gazaille wrote:

> Good day to all of you and thank you for reading this.
> 
> I certainly must have done something awfully wrong
> when I downloaded and installed R 2.0.0 on a PC
> with Windows 98.
> 
> You will find below what happens when  I try to 'update.packages()'.


Beside other things that might have gone wrong:
update.packages() is not sufficient after upgrading to R-2.0.0.
You have to reinstall into a clean library, because packages some 
packages have still the same version, but needed to be recompiled for 
R-2.0.0. Please install all the stuff from scratch.

Uwe Ligges



> I know what the first 'warning message'  means.
> About the others, I ain't got no clue.
> 
> Thank you very handsomely for your wisdom.
> And thank you also for all that tremendously
> wonderful work.
> 
>  - joseph
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>update.packages()
> 
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 21411 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 20Kb
> 
> Error in "colnames<-"(`*tmp*`, value = c("Package", "LibPath", "Version",  :
>         length of dimnames [2] not equal to array extent
> In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first
> 50)
> 
> 
>>warnings()
> 
> Warning messages:
> 1: DESCRIPTION file of package  'aaa'  missing or broken
>  in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = pkgFlds)
> 2: number of columns of result
>         not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 3: number of columns of result
>         not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 4: number of columns of result
>         not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 5: number of columns of result
>         not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 6: number of columns of result
>         not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
> 7: number of columns of result
>         not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: rbind(retval, c(p, lib,
> desc))
>  .
>  .
>  .
>  .
>  .
>  .... etc.  all the same ...
> 
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