tags 365804 + pending severity 365804 normal thanks
On 3 May 2006 at 06:56, Paolo Cavallini wrote: | Subject: r-cran-rodbc: not loading (R 2.3?) | Package: r-cran-rodbc | Version: 1.1.5-2 | Severity: grave | Justification: renders package unusable | | *** Please type your report below this line *** | When loading library(RODBC), I get: | Error in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed, envhook) : | ReadItem: type 241 unknown | Warning message: | package 'RODBC' was built under R version 2.3.0 It will work fine once the R version that is currently in unstable migrates to testing -- presumably in two or three days as it has passed 8 out 10 days of the required waiting period. In the meantime, you can either - install the R version from unstable (which is what I would do), or - rebuild the r-cran-rodbc locally on your machine against your R version, or | Apparently this affects other packages also, and may be due to different R | mirrors being out of sync (see eg: | http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/12/16743.html) | Reverting to previous version (1.5) solves the problem. - as you did, use a prior version. | I'm available for testing an updated experimental package, if necessary. You could try using a newer R. Sorry about the nuisance, this is the small price we pay for testing the new R releases in unstable before they come out. Typically we only get warning and not such a failure which is why we do not add versioned Depends or Conflicts. Hope this helps, Dirk | -- | Paolo Cavallini | email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.faunalia.it | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: testing/unstable | APT prefers testing | APT policy: (500, 'testing') | Architecture: i386 (i686) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash | Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 | Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | | Versions of packages r-cran-rodbc depends on: | ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries | ii r-base-core 2.2.1-6 GNU R core of statistical | computin | ii unixodbc 2.2.11-13 ODBC tools libraries | | r-cran-rodbc recommends no packages. | | -- no debconf information | -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]