[R-sig-Debian] r-cran-* packages with recent R alpha release

[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:24:25 -0500,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

> On 18 October 2011 at 11:00, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> After the recent r-base and r-base-core alpha releases in sid, some
>> packages fail to load, e.g. r-cran-bitops:
>> 
R> library(bitops)
>> Error in library(bitops) : package ‘bitops’ does not have a NAMESPACE
>> and should be re-installed
>> 
>> I suppose these errors will get fixed after 2.14.0 is released.  In
>> the meantime, should we just downgrade r-base and r-base-core to the
>> testing versions?

> Is that an r-cran-* package?  In which case you should file a gentle
> bug report requesting a rebuild (as the 2.14.0 snapshots are in fact
> in Debian unstable from where Michael took'em).

Yes, in fact I see these errors with several Debian sid packages for,
e.g.: Design, abind, evd, bitops.


> I would reinstall bitops into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ rather
> than downgrading R, but either way is fine.

Good idea installing to the local library, making sure it is before the
system-wide one in the library tree!

Cheers,

-- 
Seb