packages fExtremes and mvtnorm

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I've seen this error before with fExtremes: I don't believe it to be 
directly due to the mvtnorm change.  It looks more like a protection 
problem in fExtremes or something it calls.

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Dear package maintainers of mvtnorm and fExtremes ,
>
> perhaps (and I am really not sure, but it is the only recursive dependency 
> that got updated) due to yesterday's mvtnorm update on CRAN, we see fExtremes 
> failing now, see e.g.:
>
> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-windows-ix86+x86_64/fExtremes-00check.html
>
> Can you please negotiate further actions and fix the problem. Please
> upload fixed version(s) of the package(s) with increased version
> number(s) to CRAN in the usual way and report to cran at R-project.org.
>
> Best wishes,
> Uwe
>

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