[R] Install R 2.10.1 on Windows XP Errors

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.01.2010 22:09, Steve_Friedman at nps.gov wrote:
>
> I have just upgraded from 2.9.2 to 2.10.1 on my XP machine.
>
> I rec'd the following error message:
>
> Error in strsplit(x[ok], "[.-]") :
>    5 arguments passed to .Internal(strsplit) which requires 6
>
> I also tried update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask = FALSE)
>
>> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE)
> Error: could not find function "update.packages"
>
> Has anyone else experienced this - what is the fix ?



The fix is not to mix up base packages for old versions of R that you 
have in some library in your search path with a new version of R.

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges




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>
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