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..."easy" meaning being able to keep a consistent system up-to-date with no local package creation and no "local", out-of-packaging, installation. The alternatives are not pretty : - keeping outdated versions expose you, among other unpleasant eventualities, to the risk of being Ripley'd for having the nerve to ask for help on R-help with an outdated system (not a pretty sight...) ; - a locally compiled R deprives you of most of the benefits of using a distribution (consistency, updates, etc..) ; - locally compiled packages is some work, that should not be duplicated if it...

...frustrated at understanding the root of the problem. Of course, I also tried to read the header line alone as a semicolon separated file of one line : it fails with a warning about an unterminated final line and returns a data frame with 467 columns and 0 line. And, by the way (let's try to be Ripley'd for something else than forgetting to read the FAQ) : > R.Version() $platform [1] "i486-pc-linux-gnu" $arch [1] "i486" $os [1] "linux-gnu" $system [1] "i486, linux-gnu" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "6.0&quot...