[R] Cleaning up R-2.0.0 installation on GNU/Linux ?

[Thomas Schönhoff]

Hello,

first, big thank you to the developers of R, the release of recent 
version is very nice.!

Well, it seems that I've messed up my current installation by using two 
update mechanism at the same time on my Debian Sid box.

That is :

1)Debian Way per apt-get freshing up my R installation

2) irregularily "update packages()" from within R.


I guess this obviousely resulted in messing up my installation looking 
like this:

-------------------------------------------------------------
 > library()
(..)
Packages in library '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library':

accuracy                ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
ade4                    ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
debug                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
distr                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
eha                     Event History Analysis.
ellipse                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
faraway                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
fortunes                ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
leaps                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
mvbutils                ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
mvtnorm                 ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
nlme                    Linear and nonlinear mixed effects models
R2WinBUGS               ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
RColorBrewer            ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
sca                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
scatterplot3d           ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
sn                      ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
sna                     ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
tree                    ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
xgobi                   ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
xtable                  ** No title available (pre-2.0.0 install?) **
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

It seems that my insane update method has entirely messed up the 
attached package section! All other packages still seem to be or run 
fine! Loading a package from above package section

  > library(mvtnorm)

gives me:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error in library(mvtnorm) : 'mvtnorm' is not a valid package -- 
installed < 2.0.0?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since this is the first time I encounter a problem like this in R I 
wonder where to go from here:

1) Wipe out the existent installation and re-install GNU R ?

or

2) Is there possibly any other method to cope with this situation from 
within GNU R-2.0.0?


regards

Thomas




platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386
os       linux-gnu
system   i386, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    0.0
year     2004
month    10
day      04
language R