[R] R 2.12.0 for Windows: error when loading (some) packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is the very first item in the CHANGES file for 2.12.0 ....

How to upgrade your R is an FAQ, 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What_0027s-the-best-way-to-upgrade_003f


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Renaud Lancelot wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have installed the latest version of R 2.12.0 available on CRAN
> (http://cran.r-project.org). When I try to load the recommended
> package lattice:
>
>> library(lattice)
> Error: package 'lattice' is not installed for 'arch=i386'
>
> I am running Rgui using
> C:\R\R-2.12.0\bin\i386\Rgui.exe --vanilla
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> By the way, I met the same error when trying to load many contributed
> packages which were installed in a separate library
>
>> .libPaths()
> [1] "C:/R/RLIBS"            "C:/R/R-2.12.0/library"
>
> I had to reinstall them from CRAN.
>
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