Hi again, I should add that installation of the Debian packages r-cran-kernsmooth and r-cran-mgcv proceeded without any problems. It's just building and installing packages requiring those (and possibly others) that are giving the error.
Cheers, -- Seb _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

