[R] Win upgrade pb (virus)

[John C Frain]

I would suggestto Mario that, if he wishes to use colorspace and keep
AVG,  he should install R 2.13.2.  The colorspace library built with
that version of R does not give a false positive with AVG.  To update
paackages he must remove not only colorspace but also its reverse
dependencies, the reverse dependencies of its dependencies etc.

 I have done this and am running 2.13.2 and 2.14 in parallel.  If you
upgrade R to a new version it is always worthwhile to keep the older
version until you are sure that the new version can run all the
packages that you need.  Apart from problems with anti-virus software
there is a posibility that there may be a delay in  one of your
packages or a dependency becoming available.

I have reported the false positive to AVG and have received an
acknowledgment from them.  The AVG program contains a facility for
reporting false positives. Please use it and put a little more
pressure on them to update their software.

The web site http://virusscan.jotti.org allows you to submit a problem
file to 20 different anti-virus programs.  Only 1 program (AVG) finds
a problem in colorspace.dll.  The other 19 pass the file.

Best Regards

John

On 11 November 2011 10:54, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Mario Valle wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded my Win7 32bits installation to 2.14.0 after deinstalling
>> 2.12.x
>> First thing I moved the win-library from 2.12 to 2.14 and executed a
>> update.packages(ask='graphics',checkBuilt=TRUE)
>> (Swiss mirror).
>> This aborts with the console message:
>>
>> Error in if (any(diff)) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>>
>> And the antivirus (AVG) pops up complaining that colorspace.dll contains
>> the virus Win32/Heur
>> I cannot ignore the thread because update.packages has already crashed
>> when I can reach the antivirus dialogbox to push the "ignore" button.
>> To continue I had to remove the colorspace and ggplot2 packages.
>>
>> Is it a known problem? What else can I do (except removing the above
>> packages or changing antivirus)?
>
> Yes (a known problem in AVG), and the standard advice is to change antivirus
> (or set exceptions, which I gather AVG does not allow). And please report
> the false positive to AVG: the more they hear about the more attention they
> will give it.
>
> The binary distribution has been checked by e.g. Sophos (which both
> winbuilder and ox.ac.uk use).
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>                           mario
>>
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>> Ing. Mario Valle
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>
>
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