[R] library(its) problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Erin Hodgess wrote:

> Dear R People:
>
> I wanted to use the package "its" this afternoon.
>
> I'm using R Version 2.2.0 for Windows.
>
> I was able to install the package, but ran into trouble at
> the "library" command.  Here is the output:
>
>> library(its)
> Loading required package: Hmisc
> Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr
>
> Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview')
> to see overall documentation.
>
> NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when
> subsetting.  To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels().
>
> Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
>
>
>        The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :
>
>         ecdf
>
> Error in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed, envhook) :
>        ReadItem: unknown type 241
> In addition: Warning message:
> package 'its' was built under R version 2.3.0
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'its'
>
> Is there a new version 2.3.0, please>

Not yet: it means R-devel.

Where did you get the packages from?  We've seen this sort of confusion 
(packages for R-devel under 2.2.x) on the statlib mirror, and suggest you 
re-install them from a different mirror.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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