R SIG Debian - Oct 2011 - r-cran-* packages with recent R alpha release

Hi,

After the recent r-base and r-base-core alpha releases in sid, some
packages fail to load, e.g. r-cran-bitops:

R> library(bitops)
Error in library(bitops) : 
  package ?bitops? does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed

I suppose these errors will get fixed after 2.14.0 is released.  In the
meantime, should we just downgrade r-base and r-base-core to the testing
versions?

Cheers,

-- 
Seb

On 18 October 2011 at 11:00, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| After the recent r-base and r-base-core alpha releases in sid, some
| packages fail to load, e.g. r-cran-bitops:
| 
| R> library(bitops)
| Error in library(bitops) : 
|   package ?bitops? does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
| 
| I suppose these errors will get fixed after 2.14.0 is released.  In the
| meantime, should we just downgrade r-base and r-base-core to the testing
| versions?

Is that an r-cran-* package?  In which case you should file a gentle bug
report requesting a rebuild (as the 2.14.0 snapshots are in fact in Debian
unstable from where Michael took'em).   

I would reinstall bitops into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ rather than
downgrading R, but either way is fine.

Dirk

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