[R] RE3: Suddenly "Subscript out of bounds"

[roderick.castillo at metanomics.de]

Hello Thierry

Sorry for my assumption about automatically updating R itself.

Your question is a reasonable one. I have to update the modules
regularly because the users urge me to do so. Updating R itself
means more work, specially if you have to recompile all modules!

Of course you can just move the existing module files to the library
location of the new version (or relink it), but I don't know if this
procedure
works "officially" or just by chance, and secondly, self-installed module
files are mixed up with R own core modules, so I wouln't know how to
separate them clean and sure.

I am open for any ideas!

Bye
Rick





                                                                           
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Roderick,

I'm not suggesting that you need a script to update R automatically. I
don't think it is possible to do that. I just was wondering why you are
so eager to update all the packages daily, but still are working with an
outdated version of R.
Myself, I tend to check the R lists for new updates on R and it's
packages.

Thierry

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If you tell me how to update R itself automatically, I will go for your
advice.
I am not aware of any method to do it...
Bye
Rick






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You update all packages but not R itself?

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ir. Thierry Onkelinx

Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Reseach Institute for Nature
and Forest

Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics,
methodology and quality assurance

Gaverstraat 4

9500 Geraardsbergen

Belgium

tel. + 32 54/436 185

Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be

www.inbo.be



Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully
considered what they do not say.  ~William W. Watt

A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of
uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney


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Onderwerp: [R] Suddenly "Subscript out of bounds"


Hello

Using R Version 2.3.1 I have setup a cronjob to update packages,
which worked successfully almost a year (it was called daily).
Basically, it runs like this:

Sys.getenv("http_proxy")
update.packages(ask=F,repos="http://cran.r-project.org")

(the http_proxy environment variable is set prior to the call).

All of a sudden, I started to get this error:

Error in inherits(x,  "factor") :  subscript out of bounds

I have no clue about what this means. Is "factor" a buggy package?

Clearly, that kind of things can happen when you just update things
automatically...

Any help with be appreciated!

Bye
Rick

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