From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Aug 17 08:56:26 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Aug 17 08:56:29 2004
Subject: [Rd] Meta information in packages in pre-2.0.0
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408170747090.9322-100000@gannet.stats>

We are intending to include a lot more pre-computed information with an
installed package in 2.0.0, and to force all packages to be reinstalled
under 2.0.0.

This causes a problem with R-devel pre-2.0.0, which stamps packages as
having been installed under the future 2.0.0.  As of today we have changed
the format of the meta-information file 'Meta/package.rds', and you should
either reinstall packages under R-devel (a good idea if they were not
installed in August) or run

tools:::.update_package_rds()

(it has a lib.loc argument, so can be run a library at a time).  Even the 
standard and recommended packages need to be updated unless you are 
building from scratch.

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[Rd] Meta information in packages in pre-2.0.0
Prof Brian Ripley