There has been a problem with (someone else's!) update to package stats. As with yesterday, it should already be fixed in cvs and will get fixed in rsync. A clean build from the cvs works.
You should have seen an error message earlier in the build process. On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jeff Gentry wrote: > Hello ... > > With a new checkout of R-devel, I'm getting the following error on > startup: > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or > 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. > Type 'q()' to quit R. > > Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open compressed file > `/home/jgentry/R-1.9.0/library/methods/R/all.rda' > > search() > [1] > ".GlobalEnv" "package:stats" "package:graphics" "package:utils" > [5] "Autoloads" "package:base" > Warning message: > package methods in options("defaultPackages") was not found > > > This is happening on Linux (RH7.2, RH9.0) and Solaris 8. Where did you get RH9.0 from? I don't think it exists. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel