R SIG Debian - Mar 2009 - aggregate() example fails]

Hi R users and developers on debian platforms.

I compile the R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-03-18 r48193) 
on my UBUNTU linux distribution.

But when I ask for the aggregate example it fails.

What am I missing?


example(aggregate)

aggrgt> ## Compute the averages for the variables in
'state.x77',grouped
aggrgt> ## according to the region (Northeast, South, North Central,West)
that
aggrgt> ## each state belongs to.
aggrgt> aggregate(state.x77, list(Region = state.region), mean)
Error en FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : 
  elemento 1 esta vacio;
  la parte de la lista de argumentos  'is.list' ha sido evaluada:
(INDEX)

I discovery this behavior when I try to use old scripts that uses
the aggregate() function, but now it fails on my old scripts.

Thank you for your help.

Kenneth 

PD: R.Version() returns:
$platform
[1] "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
$arch
[1] "x86_64"
$os
[1] "linux-gnu"
$syste
[1] "x86_64, linux-gnu"
$status
[1] "Patched"
$major
[1] "2"
$minor
[1] "8.1"
$year
[1] "2009"
$month
[1] "03"
$day
[1] "18"
$`svn rev`
[1] "48193"
$language
[1] "R"
$version.string
[1] "R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-03-18 r48193)"

Kenneth,

example(aggregate) works fine on the amd64 ubuntu packages on CRAN.  You 
are running a slightly newer version (an alpha or beta, I think), which 
may be a problem.  If I get a chance in the next couple of days, I will 
try the new beta to see if example(aggregate) still works.  My 
suggestion would be to use the packages on CRAN.  Is there are reason 
why those are not sufficient?

Michael

Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres wrote:
> Hi R users and developers on debian platforms.
> 
> I compile the R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-03-18 r48193) 
> on my UBUNTU linux distribution.
> 
> But when I ask for the aggregate example it fails.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> 
> example(aggregate)
> 
> aggrgt> ## Compute the averages for the variables in
'state.x77',grouped
> aggrgt> ## according to the region (Northeast, South, North
Central,West) that
> aggrgt> ## each state belongs to.
> aggrgt> aggregate(state.x77, list(Region = state.region), mean)
> Error en FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : 
>   elemento 1 esta vacio;
>   la parte de la lista de argumentos  'is.list' ha sido evaluada:
(INDEX)
> 
> I discovery this behavior when I try to use old scripts that uses
> the aggregate() function, but now it fails on my old scripts.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Kenneth 
> 
> PD: R.Version() returns:
> $platform
> [1] "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
> $arch
> [1] "x86_64"
> $os
> [1] "linux-gnu"
> $syste
> [1] "x86_64, linux-gnu"
> $status
> [1] "Patched"
> $major
> [1] "2"
> $minor
> [1] "8.1"
> $year
> [1] "2009"
> $month
> [1] "03"
> $day
> [1] "18"
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "48193"
> $language
> [1] "R"
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-03-18 r48193)"
> 
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