[R-SIG-Mac] Can't load MASS when using Mac GUI.

[Rolf Turner]

On 18/02/2009, at 7:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> You are tryig to use MASS built for R 2.7.x on 2.8.1.
> Looks like /Users/rturner/Rlib needs updating.

Yep.  That was the problem.  Thanks.

Actually I could just *get rid* of MASS (VR bundle generally) in
/Users/rturner/Rlib since this bundle is of course in the main
R library and in this location is of course up-to-date.  Whence
the version of the bundle in /User/rturner/Rlib is redundant and
merely serves as a potential source of problems.

I'm still puzzled as to why there was a problem using the GUI and
not when R was started from the command line.  In both instances
.libPaths() yields

[1] "/Users/rturner/Rlib"
[2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"

So I would have thought that R would look (first) for MASS in /Users/ 
rturner/Rlib
--- and find the out-of-date version, and hence fall over --- in either
case.  (And the version of R is the same irrespective of startup  
method.)

Be that as it may, the problem is solved.  Thanks again.

	cheers,

		Rolf

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