Hi, I am getting masked objects and I think the maintainers of the respective packages (lattice, boot, survival, aml) should agree on how to eliminate th conflicts. Here my start up protocol with the relevant information: -------------- R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.2.0 (2005-10-06 r35749) [clip] Type 'q()' to quit R. [clip] [Previously saved workspace restored] Loading required package: CWHstring Attaching package: 'CWHplot' KernSmooth 2.22 installed Copyright M. P. Wand 1997 Loading required package: graphics Loading required package: grDevices Loading required package: stats Loading required package: utils Attaching package: 'lattice' The following object(s) are masked from package:boot : melanoma This is mgcv 1.3-7 Attaching package: 'survival' The following object(s) are masked from package:boot : aml Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Making links in per-session dir ... If 'firefox' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must switch to its window. Otherwise, be patient ... Started in /home/woodstock/hoffmacw/Projects/FtoK/Jurt with '~/R/.Rprofile' edited on 2005-08-29, 14:34 > options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient -q') > ------------------- Kind regards Christian -- Dr. Christian W. Hoffmann, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Mathematics + Statistical Computing Zuercherstrasse 111 CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland Tel +41-44-7392-277 (office) -111(exchange) Fax +41-44-7392-215 (fax) christian.hoffmann at wsl.ch http://www.wsl.ch/staff/christian.hoffmann International Conference 5.-7.6.2006 Ekaterinburg Russia "Climate changes and their impact on boreal and temperate forests" http://ecoinf.uran.ru/conference/