[R] error with 'hash' library

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using R2.10 on Windows 2000 and I'm having trouble installing the 'hash'

We've not seen that for a long time, and as Microsoft no longer 
supports it, we don't test there.

> library. This is the error I get:
>> library(hash)
> ??????????????????????????? _?????? _???????
> ? ___? _ __?? ___ _ __?? __| | __ _| |_ __ _
> ?/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ / _` |/ _' | __/ _' |
> | (_) | |_) |? __/ | | | (_| | (_| | || (_| |
> ?\___/| .__/ \___|_| |_|\__,_|\__,_|\__\__,_|
> ????? |_|?????? http://www.opendatagroup.com
> Error in cat("\n? ", pkgname, "-", utils::installed.packages()[pkgname,? :
> ? subscript out of bounds
> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'hash'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'hash'
>
> Can anybody tell how to solve this? Thanks in advance!

Follow the posting guide ....

- there is no 'R2.10': you were asked to be accurate about versions
- you were asked to update to current R before posting.

[AFAIK this is the result of a badly written package calling 
installed.packages() and some other package not being installed 
properly.  We worked around that long ago.]

> ?Cheers!!
> Albert-Jan

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