> | > | But since foreign is part of R, installing a new version of R will > | update the standard and recommended packages including foreign. So > | this suggests that what is being picked up is another copy > of foreign > | from another library. > > Good point. > > As I recall, Christian always builds a sumo 'r-recommends' > package which Bjorn should install from the same apt-get'able > archive on CRAN. >
Even when I completely remove the old version of R and install r-base-core from CRAN (which includes r-base and r-recommende), I get the error with the foreign library. Anyway, I compiled from source and now have 2.4 and everything works fine. Bjorn ______________________________________________ [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.
