[R] R-2.6.2 installation (64bit) falling over with the grid package

[Patrick Connolly]

On Sun, 24-Feb-2008 at 10:00AM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

|> It's your system: try unpacking the tarball again. 

No surprises there: Brian is spot on again.  Thank you Brian.

I'd not have thought of trying unpacking again.  I thought there would
be no stochastic element to such a process.  Perhaps the hardware
could introduce a stochastic element.  (This machine is only 3 years
old, but already it's impossible to buy a replacement mobo.)



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