On 15 October 2006 at 14:45, Ronaldo ReisJunior wrote: | I have R 2.3.1 installed by debian páckage. | | I install only the base and recommended R packages from Debian source, all | others packages I install from the R source at CRAN.
We some 50 or more r-cran-* packages that you could apt-get install too... | But, I try to use library MASS, but I received this message: | | > library(MASS) | Error: This is R 2.3.1, package 'MASS' needs >= 2.4.0 | | What is the problem? A mistake I made in specifying too weak a constraint when I said 'Depends: r-base-core (>> 2.3.1)' as 2.3.1-1 satisfies this. So several CRAN et al packages compiled using the different R 2.4.0 release candidates in Debian unstable slipped into testing before R 2.4.0 itself did. As discussed on r-sig-debian from where I quote from a post from two days ago: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can either 1) go to Debian unstable and install r-base-core, r-base-dev, r-mathlib, ... from the 2.4.0 release manually (or semi-automatically using the pinning feature of apt-get), or 2) go to snapshot.debian.net and get the previous version of the failing package (here r-cran-vr), or 3) use install.packages() or update.packages() within R to overwrite to package 4) wait for R 2.4.0 to hit testing. I recommend the first choice, esp with apt-get pinning which makes it quite easy. Choice 2 is probably the least scary if 'pinning' is a bit much. Choice 3 may be the easiest. Choice 4 obviously stinks. Again, sorry about this. I'll try hard not to do that again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The R 2.4.0 packages may actually enter testing today, so 4) may not be so onerous. They may get blocked by apparent conflict with rpy which may require a manual push by the release team. I have contacted them. Again, sorry -- this shouldn't have happened. Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.