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

[Michael Rutter]

On 10/18/2011 12:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel 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).
>
> I would reinstall bitops into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ rather than
> downgrading R, but either way is fine.
>

Just to confirm, I was having the same issue using Launchpad to build 
packages for 11.10.  The solution was to rebuild the ones causing the 
error (bitops in the example above) and things work fine.  Could take 
time to find all the problem packages.

Michael

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