Hi Everyone: It turns out that there's still a small ( I hope ) problem.
I'm close but that only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

Here's my problem: When trying to load a package that I am writing, the
load is looking for the packageDescription function in the utils package
but not finding the utils package. I looked on cran and utils is not there
which makes me think that it should have been part of the build. But then I
went to my recommended packages directory and it's not there ? (See below
). Is that an error by me that it's not there ? I definitely don't know how
to tell R that it needs to load the utils package since I don't seem to
have access to the package myself. Thanks for any enlightenment and my
apologies for the false SUCCESS earlier.



Mark
:~/R/2.14/src/library/Recommended> dir
total 6748
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds    3574 Nov  7 10:11 Makefile.in
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds    1661 Nov  7 10:11 Makefile.win
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds   30402 Nov  7 10:20
KernSmooth_2.23-6.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  466772 Nov  7 10:20 MASS_7.3-16.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds 2513797 Nov  7 10:20 Matrix_1.0-1.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  225195 Nov  7 10:20 boot_1.3-3.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds   20128 Nov  7 10:20 class_7.3-3.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  246438 Nov  7 10:20 cluster_1.14.1.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds   12392 Nov  7 10:20
codetools_0.2-8.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  339028 Nov  7 10:20 foreign_0.8-46.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  358849 Nov  7 10:20 lattice_0.20-0.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  510979 Nov  7 10:20 mgcv_1.7-10.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  705660 Nov  7 10:20 nlme_3.1-102.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds   23418 Nov  7 10:20 nnet_7.3-1.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds  135545 Nov  7 10:20 rpart_3.1-50.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds   40627 Nov  7 10:20 spatial_7.3-3.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 markleeds markleeds 1248288 Nov  7 10:20
survival_2.36-10.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      18 Nov  7 10:20 MASS.tgz ->
MASS_7.3-16.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      21 Nov  7 10:20 lattice.tgz ->
lattice_0.20-0.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      19 Nov  7 10:20 Matrix.tgz ->
Matrix_1.0-1.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      19 Nov  7 10:20 nlme.tgz ->
nlme_3.1-102.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      23 Nov  7 10:20 survival.tgz ->
survival_2.36-10.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      17 Nov  7 10:20 boot.tgz ->
boot_1.3-3.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      21 Nov  7 10:20 cluster.tgz ->
cluster_1.14.1.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      22 Nov  7 10:20 codetools.tgz ->
codetools_0.2-8.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      21 Nov  7 10:20 foreign.tgz ->
foreign_0.8-46.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      24 Nov  7 10:20 KernSmooth.tgz ->
KernSmooth_2.23-6.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      19 Nov  7 10:20 rpart.tgz ->
rpart_3.1-50.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      18 Nov  7 10:20 class.tgz ->
class_7.3-3.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      17 Nov  7 10:20 nnet.tgz ->
nnet_7.3-1.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      20 Nov  7 10:20 spatial.tgz ->
spatial_7.3-3.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 markleeds markleeds      18 Nov  7 10:20 mgcv.tgz ->
mgcv_1.7-10.tar.gz
:~/R/2.14/src/library/Recommended>

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