[R] sessionInfo() error

[Yihui Xie]

I think there must be something wrong with the result of
packageDescription('heplots'). It should be a list, but in your case,
it is a vector (probably NA, I guess).

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Yihui
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
> [Using R 2.7.2 on Windows XP]
> After re-building our heplots package, I've begun to get the following error
> from sessionInfo(),
> even though it passes R CMD check and builds without errors:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> Error in x$Priority : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
> In addition: Warning message:
> In FUN(c("MASS", "heplots", "car", "rgl", "stats", "graphics", "grDevices",
>  :
>  DESCRIPTION file of package 'heplots' is missing or broken
>
> The DESCRIPTION file is as follows:
>
> Package: heplots
> Type: Package
> Title: Visualizing Tests in Multivariate Linear Models
> Version: 0.8-3
> Date: 2008-10-28
> Author: John Fox, Michael Friendly, and Georges Monette
> Maintainer: John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
> Depends: car, graphics, stats
> Suggests: rgl, candisc
> LazyLoad: yes
> LazyData: yes
> Description: Represents sums-of-squares-and-products matrices for linear
> hypotheses and for error using ellipses (in two dimensions) and ellipsoids
> (in three dimensions).
> License: GPL version 2 or newer
> Packaged: Wed Jan 31 09:23:10 2007; John Fox
>
> What is wrong here?
>
> -Michael
>
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