On 25 March 2005 at 01:28, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050325 01:14]:
|
| > I am not sure. One thing I could think of is the sequence of installing
| > r-base-core and r-doc-html because the latter could have linked onto the
| > former -- in the way that r-mathlib, which really depends on r-base-core,
does:
| >
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -ld /usr/share/doc/r-{mathlib,base-core}
| > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 21 22:32 /usr/share/doc/r-base-core
| > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct 12 19:24 /usr/share/doc/r-mathlib ->
r-base-core
| >
| > I may have done the same once for r-doc-html.
|
| I don't understand any of that, sorry.
It means that r-mathlib "shares" the Debian doc directory of r-base-core. I
think I once did the same for r-doc-html, and the transition may be what
introduces the bug.
| > Is there a chance your office and home machines are "old", i.e. had R back
| > around 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, ... ?
|
| Yes, if that's your criteria, they are old... I guess I'll just purge
| and reinstall... Maybe a warning message during installation of the
| package would be helpful, for people that like old boxes (I am thinking
| e.g. of people that upgrade from woody which has per default R 1.5.1).
If you know what version you upgraded from, I could test it here too. Do you
know what version of R that was?
Dirk
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