I get on debian/etch the following, with foreign installed from
r-cran-foreign:
> library(foreign)
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
unable to load shared library
'/usr/lib/R/library/foreign/libs/foreign.so':
/usr/lib/R/library/foreign/libs/foreign.so: undefined symbol:
Rf_allocString
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'foreign'
Local installation works fine.
Bests,
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Edzer