[R] new package error message

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Jason Liao wrote:

> My coauthor made a new R package GeneLogit (100% R code) which installs
> ok on R 2.3 on Windows. But when I type
>
> library(GeneLogit)
>
> it gave the error message
>
> Error in library(GeneLogit) : 'GeneLogit' is not a valid package --
> installed < 2.0.0?
>
> It runs on R 1.9.0 just fine. It seems that others have encountered
> same problem but no solution is found by googling

In every case I have ever seen mentioned, the solution was to install the 
package properly by R CMD INSTALL and not by a manual kludge.

The message is given if the installation lacks the metadata in the Meta 
subdirectory which INSTALL creates.

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