But it also happens in 1.9.0 (always worth checking the current release,
surely?)
Try CRAN.packages()[121,]
The CRAN PACKAGES file contains
Package: haplo.score
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 2002-09-13
Title: Score Tests for Association of Traits with Haplotypes when
Linkage Phase is Ambiguous.
Author: Charles M. Rowland, David E. Tines, and Daniel J. Schaid
. R version translation by Gregory R. Warnes
Maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes
....
and that blank line should not be there. There are a two others:
Package: lars
Version: 0.9-4
Date: 2003-05-16
Title: Least Angle Regression, Lasso and Forward Stagewise
Author: Trevor Hastie and Brad Efron
Maintainer: Trevor Hastie
Package: multinomRob
Version: 1.1
Date: 2004/03/03
Title: Robust Estimation of Overdispersed Multinomial Regression Models
Author: Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Jasjeet Singh Sekhon
Maintainer: Jasjeet Singh Sekhon
So, something has changed at CRAN, near midnight BST.
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
> I see something new and unexpected here.
>
> > update.packages()
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 163467 bytes
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .........
> downloaded 159Kb
>
> Error in if (any(ok) && any(package.dependencies(available[ok, ],
check
> = TRUE))) { :
> missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>
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