R devel - May 2004 - search and missing library

I'm not sure what is going on with this one -- maybe it will make
sense to someone.

R1.9.0 under Windows 2000.

1) Start up R.

2) search() # works as expected

3) library(fBasics)  # from Rmetrics
# but at least one of its required packages is not present on the machine

4) search()  # nothing appears at all but the prompt

Once all of the required packages are present, then step 3 no longer
causes search() to fail.


Patrick Burns

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On Fri, 21 May 2004 21:20:43 +0100, Patrick Burns
<pburns@pburns.seanet.com> wrote:
>I'm not sure what is going on with this one -- maybe it will make
>sense to someone.
>
>R1.9.0 under Windows 2000.
>
>1) Start up R.
>
>2) search() # works as expected
>
>3) library(fBasics)  # from Rmetrics
># but at least one of its required packages is not present on the machine
>
>4) search()  # nothing appears at all but the prompt
>
>Once all of the required packages are present, then step 3 no longer
>causes search() to fail.
Can you reproduce this with a CRAN package?  If not, it's probably a
bug that should be reported to the package author.

Duncan Murdoch