You need the version in src/contrib/1.9.0/Recommended on cran (and you do for several other recommended packages).
tools/rsync-recommended should get you that version: is that how you are doing it? As a check, MASS comes from VR version 7.2-0 in R-devel. On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both > on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this > morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I just > broken and special? > > 609$ /home/Rdevel/bin/R > > R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Version 1.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-03-04), ISBN > 3-900051-00-3 > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors. > Type 'contributors()' for more information and > 'citation()' on how to cite R in publications. > > 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. > > > library(MASS) > Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) : > package 'mva' does not have a name space > Error in library(MASS) : package/namespace load failed > > > > > I want to know if it's just me. > > best, > -tony > > > -- 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