R devel - Jul 2011 - requiring NAMESPACE re-installation marked as old.packages?

It would be convenient if, under R-devel r56422, packages that require 
re-installation because they do not have a NAMESPACE were marked as 
old.packages, so their lack of functionality can be discovered more easily.

 > "snow" %in% row.names(old.packages())
[1] FALSE
 > library(snow)
Error in library(snow) :
   package 'snow' does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
 > install.packages("snow",
repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
Installing package(s) into 
'/home/mtmorgan/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.14'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/snow_0.3-5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 21059 bytes (20 Kb)
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 20 Kb

* installing *source* package 'snow' ...
** R
** inst
** Creating default NAMESPACE file
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Warning: running .First.lib() for package 'snow' as .onLoad/.onAssign 
were not found
Error in initDefaultClusterOptions() :
   cannot change value of locked binding for 'defaultClusterOptions'
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing '/home/mtmorgan/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.14/snow'
* restoring previous 
'/home/mtmorgan/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.14/snow'

The downloaded packages are in
         '/tmp/RtmpoGypnz/downloaded_packages'
Warning message:
In install.packages("snow", repos =
"http://cran.r-project.org") :
   installation of package 'snow' had non-zero exit status

Martin
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Most if not all packages will need a re-installation, not only those you 
talked about (in particular there is a new snow on CRAN already). Hence 
I think it is not worth the effort to find out what "old" means.
Please
note this may change during the development cycle and you may even need 
one or more re-installations before the next R is released. S4 packages 
may even need re-installation if other S4 packages (the former depend 
on) change.

Best,
Uwe




On 19.07.2011 10:23, Martin Morgan wrote:
> It would be convenient if, under R-devel r56422, packages that require
> re-installation because they do not have a NAMESPACE were marked as
> old.packages, so their lack of functionality can be discovered more easily.
>
>  > "snow" %in% row.names(old.packages())
> [1] FALSE
>  > library(snow)
> Error in library(snow) :
> package 'snow' does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
>  > install.packages("snow",
repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
> Installing package(s) into
> '/home/mtmorgan/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.14'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> trying URL
'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/snow_0.3-5.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 21059 bytes (20 Kb)
> opened URL
> =================================================> downloaded 20 Kb
>
> * installing *source* package 'snow' ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** Creating default NAMESPACE file
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices ...
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Warning: running .First.lib() for package 'snow' as
.onLoad/.onAssign
> were not found
> Error in initDefaultClusterOptions() :
> cannot change value of locked binding for 'defaultClusterOptions'
> Error: loading failed
> Execution halted
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing
'/home/mtmorgan/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.14/snow'
> * restoring previous
> '/home/mtmorgan/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.14/snow'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> '/tmp/RtmpoGypnz/downloaded_packages'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("snow", repos =
"http://cran.r-project.org") :
> installation of package 'snow' had non-zero exit status
>
> Martin