[R] Packages built before R 2.10.0

[Philip Whittall]

Hi Duncan,

That fixed it. Many thanks indeed, I now know what to do if it happens
again,

Philip
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com] 
Sent: 16 July 2010 16:00
To: Philip Whittall
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Packages built before R 2.10.0

On 16/07/2010 10:51 AM, Philip Whittall wrote:
>  I should have added that this problem is not serious under 2.10 as 
> you only get a Warning and everything works
>
>  > require(candisc)
> Loading required package: candisc
> Loading required package: car
> Loading required package: heplots
> Warning message:
> package 'car' was built under R version 2.9.2 and help will not work 
> correctly Please re-install it
> > require(car)
> > require(candisc)
> > 
>
> I am using the mirror from Imperial College London and a check on the 
> \library\car subdirectory of my
> R-2.11.1 installation show that it was updated at the expected time,
>   

I just did an install from the UK (London) mirror (the same one?) and it
works fine.  So I've got no idea what's going wrong for you.  I'd
suggest deleting the directory holding the problem package (i.e. 
\library\car) and confirming that the error changes to "Error in
library(car) : there is no package called 'car'".  Then do an install
using

install.packages("car")

and see if that fixes things.

Duncan Murdoch
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
> Sent: 16 July 2010 15:45
> To: Philip Whittall
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Packages built before R 2.10.0
>
> On 16/07/2010 10:41 AM, Philip Whittall wrote:
> > Hi Duncan,
> >
> > Many thanks for the response. I did indeed re-install car and this 
> > is what occurred ...
> >
> > > utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> > package 'car' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> > > require(candisc)
> > Loading required package: candisc
> > Loading required package: car
> > Error: package 'car' was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install it
> > > utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> > package 'candisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> > > require(candisc)
> > Loading required package: candisc
> > Loading required package: car
> > Error: package 'car' was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install it
> > > require(car)
> > Loading required package: car
> > Error: package 'car' was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install it
> > > 
> > I had checked the .zip files on the CRAN site ahd I do have the 
> > current ones I had also run update.packages() both as a command and 
> > from the console pull down menu.
> >
> > I have probably missed something obvious,
> >   
>
> I would guess you need to use a more up-to-date mirror.  It's also 
> possible that you have somehow messed up the path to your library and 
> are installing to one place but loading from another, but normally new

> installs go into the first search position, so I don't see how that 
> could be the cause.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Philip
> >  
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
> > Sent: 16 July 2010 15:24
> > To: Philip Whittall
> > Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] Packages built before R 2.10.0
> >
> > On 16/07/2010 9:50 AM, Philip Whittall wrote:
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > > I am running R2.11.1 on 32 bit windows. I am receiving messages as

> > > follows ...
> > > > require(car)
> > > Loading required package: car
> > > Error: package 'car' was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install 
> > > it
> > >
> > > The package kohonen was another example.
> > >
> > > This failure appears to be fatal and not only affects the package 
> > > concerned, but also all its dependents.
> > >
> > > Is there anything I can do at my end, or do I have to wait for the

> > > packages to be re-built,
> > >   
> >
> > Just follow the instructions:  re-install the packages and they will

> > be fine.  They've already been rebuilt for 2.11.x long ago.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Philip
> > >
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