What is this to do with me?

This is NOT an R bug.  The change referred to is in the unreleased R-devel
version of R, and it is an announced API change there.

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> On 25 September 2005 at 23:18, Meelis Roos wrote:
> | Package: r-cran-gtools
> | Version: 2.1.1-1
> | Severity: normal
> |
> |
> | Setting up r-cran-gtools (2.1.1-1) ...
> | Unknown option: htmllists
> | Usage: R CMD build-help.pl [options] [pkg] [lib]
> |
> | Install all help files for package pkg to library lib
> |
> | Options:
> |   -h, --help            print short help message and exit
> |   -v, --version         print version info and exit
> |   -d, --debug           print debugging information
> |   -os, --OS             OS to assume: unix (default) or windows
> |   --rhome               R home directory, defaults to environment R_HOME
> |   --html                build HTML files    (default is all)
> |   --txt                 build text files    (default is all)
> |   --latex               build LaTeX files   (default is all)
> |   --example             build example files (default is all)
> |   --dosnames            use 8.3 filenames
> |   --index               build index file only
> |
> | it does not fail but it outputs this so something is probably not
> | correct.
>
> Ooops.  That is the same as bug #327446 -- and it is actually an R bug due to
> an upstream change. We trigger the bug from the package postinst.
>
> Sorry about that -- but it was a unannounced applications interface change by
> R, and I am trying to keep the old behaviour until we switch all the 50+
> r-cran-* packages one-by-one.
>
> Thanks for the heads, I had not noticed this as I had inadvertently put the
> previous' weeks snapshot of R 2.2.0-to-be on 'hold' and had not upgrade to
> the build from Thursday which bit you here.
>
> New and corrected version should come out shortly. Sorry for the 
> inconvenience.
>
> Regards, Dirk
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> | -- System Information:
> | Debian Release: testing/unstable
> |   APT prefers unstable
> |   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> | Architecture: i386 (i686)
> | Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> | Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-rc1-g1619cca2
> | Locale: LANG=et_EE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.ISO-8859-15 
> (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> |
> | Versions of packages r-cran-gtools depends on:
> | ii  r-base-core        2.2.0.beta.20050922-1 GNU R core of statistical 
> computin
> |
> | r-cran-gtools recommends no packages.
> |
> | -- no debconf information
>
> --
> Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty.
>          -- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics'
>
>

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