I think there must be something wrong with the result of
packageDescription('heplots'). It should be a list, but in your case,
it is a vector (probably NA, I guess).Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 Mobile: +86-15810805877 Homepage: http://www.yihui.name School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Michael Friendly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Using R 2.7.2 on Windows XP] > After re-building our heplots package, I've begun to get the following error > from sessionInfo(), > even though it passes R CMD check and builds without errors: > >> sessionInfo() > Error in x$Priority : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors > In addition: Warning message: > In FUN(c("MASS", "heplots", "car", "rgl", "stats", "graphics", "grDevices", > : > DESCRIPTION file of package 'heplots' is missing or broken > > The DESCRIPTION file is as follows: > > Package: heplots > Type: Package > Title: Visualizing Tests in Multivariate Linear Models > Version: 0.8-3 > Date: 2008-10-28 > Author: John Fox, Michael Friendly, and Georges Monette > Maintainer: John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Depends: car, graphics, stats > Suggests: rgl, candisc > LazyLoad: yes > LazyData: yes > Description: Represents sums-of-squares-and-products matrices for linear > hypotheses and for error using ellipses (in two dimensions) and ellipsoids > (in three dimensions). > License: GPL version 2 or newer > Packaged: Wed Jan 31 09:23:10 2007; John Fox > > What is wrong here? > > -Michael > > -- > Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology > Dept. > York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 > 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html > Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.

