R help - Jan 2007 - warning in GAM

Hello,

I have a problem when doing gam (from gam library; I am using R 2.4.0, 
windows xp platform)
When doing:
example(gam)

There is this error message (which also happens when using my data)
....
Warning: a final empty element has been omitted
the part of the args list of 'list' being evaluated was:
   (coefficients = fit$beta, residuals = fit$y - fit$eta, fitted.values 
= fit$eta, effects = effects, weights = w, rank = qrank, assign = 
attr(x, "assign"), qr = qrx, smooth = fit$s, nl.df = fit$df - 1, )

Any ideias?

Thank you very much in advance,
Marta

PS: happy new year :-)

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Please update your gam package: this was fixed in 0.98.

And the _warning_ (not 'error') message is explained in the NEWS file
for
R 2.4.0.  (It will be an error in R 2.5.0.)

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Marta Rufino wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem when doing gam (from gam library; I am using R 2.4.0,
> windows xp platform)
> When doing:
> example(gam)
>
> There is this error message (which also happens when using my data)
> ....
> Warning: a final empty element has been omitted
> the part of the args list of 'list' being evaluated was:
>   (coefficients = fit$beta, residuals = fit$y - fit$eta, fitted.values
> = fit$eta, effects = effects, weights = w, rank = qrank, assign >
attr(x, "assign"), qr = qrx, smooth = fit$s, nl.df = fit$df - 1, )
>
> Any ideias?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Marta
>
> PS: happy new year :-)
>
>
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