From robert.king at newcastle.edu.au  Wed Mar 10 02:55:40 2004
From: robert.king at newcastle.edu.au (Robert King)
Date: Wed Mar 10 02:52:06 2004
Subject: [Rd] can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?
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(I'm guessing the same problem) is also present in 7.1.14-2 of the debian
package r-cran-vr with r-base-core 1.8.1.cvs.20040229-2
it can be fixed with

/usr/lib/R/library/MASS:

tolstoy:/usr/lib/R/library/MASS# diff -u NAMESPACE~ NAMESPACE
--- NAMESPACE~  Wed Mar 10 12:42:26 2004
+++ NAMESPACE   Wed Mar 10 12:42:38 2004
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 #        qda.data.frame, qda.default, qda.formula, qda.matrix,
 #        rlm.default, rlm.formula)

-importFrom(mva, biplot)
+importFrom(stats, biplot)

 S3method("[", fractions)
 S3method("[<-", fractions)



On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem.  This happens both
> on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this
> morning, reinstalling MASS.  Is anyone else seeing this or am I just
> broken and special?
>
> 609$ /home/Rdevel/bin/R
>
> R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Version 1.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-03-04), ISBN
> 3-900051-00-3
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> > library(MASS)
> Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) :
>         package 'mva' does not have a name space
> Error in library(MASS) : package/namespace load failed
> >
>
>
> I want to know if it's just me.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
>
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[Rd] can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?
Robert King