Try R --vanilla to see if it's a profile problem.
Hadley

On Friday, November 11, 2011, Bryan Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> [a variation of this was posted on r-help the other day with no answers]
>
> I've done something to my installation and can't find the cause.  This
started up a few days ago, it could be related to the problem that Simon
was working on in the past 48, but I increasingly think not.
>
> My current install is totally fresh this morning off of r.research.att.comand 
> the problem persists.  Here's a couple of examples:
>
> Example 1:
>> ?sd
> Error in help("sd", package = NULL) :
>  could not find function "%is.not.a%"
>
> Example 2 (from r-help posting):
>
> I have 3 packages that I authored and they build and check just fine
locally.  However, when I try to install the local source packages (from
the .tar.gz), I get the following message:
>
> Error in `+.POSIXt`(as.POSIXct(origin, tz = tz, ...), x) :
>  could not find function "%is.a%"
> In addition: Warning message:
> In install.packages(file.choose(), .libPaths()[1], NULL, type = "source")
:
>  installation of package
‘/Users/bryanhanson/Documents/Research/MetabolomicsProjects/ChemometricsStuff/BAHpackages/FuncMap_1.0-1.tar.gz’
had non-zero exit status
>
> Now this is pretty surprising to me; I don't use this function or any
having to do with times or time series.  I get the same message no matter
which of the 3 packages I try to install locally.  Further, if I go looking
for whatever this function is, the following occurs, and no browser window
opens:
>
>> findFn("is.a")
> found 3 matches
> Error in stopifnot(x %is.a% "POSIXct") : could not find function "%is.a%"
>
> Which is the same error as one gets just asking for help (Example 1), so
I think that error is superceding any display of help pages.
>
> And a google search of the error message doesn't produce anything recent.
>
> Does anyone recognize this problem/error?  I've thrown out and
re-installed several times and it persists.  I feel like it might be in a
hidden file (I have not yet tried to remove all existing .Rhistory files).
 I also had a development version of ggplot2 installed a few days ago, in
an attempt to fix a different problem.  My current sessionInfo() is below.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions about where to look.  Bryan
> ***********
> Bryan Hanson
> Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
> DePauw University
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-09 r57624)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] graphics  utils     datasets  grid      grDevices stats     methods
base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] HiveR_0.2-1      FuncMap_1.0-1    ChemoSpec_1.48-4 ggExtra_0.5.1
 gridExtra_0.8.5
>  [6] GGally_0.3.1     stringr_0.5      ggplot2_0.8.9    proto_0.3-9.2
 reshape_0.8.4
> [11] plyr_1.6         sos_1.3-1        brew_1.0-6       xtable_1.6-0
rgl_0.92.798
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] amap_0.8-7         bipartite_1.17     chemometrics_1.3.7 class_7.3-3
>  [5] e1071_1.6          igraph_0.5.5-3     lattice_0.20-0     MASS_7.3-16
>  [9] mclust_3.4.10      mvbutils_2.5.101   mvoutlier_1.9.4
 mvtnorm_0.9-9991
> [13] nnet_7.3-1         pcaPP_1.9-44       pls_2.2-0          R.oo_1.8.3
> [17] R.utils_1.9.3      RColorBrewer_1.0-5 RFOC_2.0-02
 robustbase_0.7-8
> [21] rpart_3.1-50       seriation_1.0-6    sna_2.2-0          som_0.3-5
> [25] splines_2.14.0     survival_2.36-10   tnet_3.0.5         tools_2.14.0
> [29] TSP_1.0-5          vegan_2.0-1
>
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