From Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de  Sat Jun  9 14:42:23 2001
From: Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Hothorn)
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:42:23 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [Rd] update.packages fails again (PR#972)
In-Reply-To: <200106082025.WAA20114@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106091540580.17528-100000@artemis.imbe.med.uni-erlangen.de>



> It's happened again:
> 
> exactRankTests_0.4-2.tar.gz has
> 
> Depends: R > 1.3.0
> 
> which is not only impossible, but breaks update.packages.

I'm sorry! exactRankTests_0.4-4.tar.gz is now in incoming and 
Depends: R (>= 1.2.3)

Torsten

> 
> How can we test for this?
> 
> Unfortunately once such a package is installed, it has to be manually
> uninstalled before update.packages will work again.
> 
> *PLEASE* can people read the manual to get the syntax right: it is
> 
> Depends: R (>= 1.3.0)
> 
> but such packages should not be in the main part of CRAN yet.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] update.packages fails again (PR#972)
Torsten Hothorn