[R] updating packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Mahdi Osman wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I have been trying to resolve the following problem for a couple of hours,
>> but couldn't get around. I updated my R pacages from CRAN which went
>> somoothly. However, updating HTML is not going well.
>> 
>> I got the following error message:
>> 
>> 1: Package R2HTML is in use and will not be installed.
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> At first I'd try to update the package when it is NOT already loaded.

I believe this message is only from Windows and it is covered in the 
rw-FAQ 3.8.  (The posting guide does ask you to consult the appropriate 
FAQs.)

>> 2: Number of rows of results is not a multiple of vector length (arg 1) in
>> cbind (pkgs, lib).

R version?  That was fixed a while ago.

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