But it also happens in 1.9.0 (always worth checking the current release, surely?)
Try CRAN.packages()[121,] The CRAN PACKAGES file contains Package: haplo.score Version: 1.0.2 Date: 2002-09-13 Title: Score Tests for Association of Traits with Haplotypes when Linkage Phase is Ambiguous. Author: Charles M. Rowland, David E. Tines, and Daniel J. Schaid . R version translation by Gregory R. Warnes Maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes .... and that blank line should not be there. There are a two others: Package: lars Version: 0.9-4 Date: 2003-05-16 Title: Least Angle Regression, Lasso and Forward Stagewise Author: Trevor Hastie and Brad Efron Maintainer: Trevor Hastie Package: multinomRob Version: 1.1 Date: 2004/03/03 Title: Robust Estimation of Overdispersed Multinomial Regression Models Author: Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Jasjeet Singh Sekhon Maintainer: Jasjeet Singh Sekhon So, something has changed at CRAN, near midnight BST. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Jan de Leeuw wrote: > I see something new and unexpected here. > > > update.packages() > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 163467 bytes > opened URL > .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... > .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... > .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... > ......... > downloaded 159Kb > > Error in if (any(ok) && any(package.dependencies(available[ok, ], check > = TRUE))) { : > missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed > > === > Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; > Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical > Software > US mail: 8130 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 > phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------- > No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai > http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- 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