I'm not sure what was going on, but trying to decipher it was taking too much time so I threw out most of the packages and started over with a clean slate. I don't get the error now. Thanks anyway.
Peter Keller Wildlife Biologist Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote on 04/28/2009 05:07:34 AM: > > > peter_kel...@fws.gov wrote: > > Just tried a minute ago with the Austria mirror as you said, and I still > > get the error. > > > Can you please tell us the result of > traceback() after you did that. > > Are you sure you have no *old* base packages in the library you want to > run update.packages() on? > Are you sure that all packages within your library are valid? > Do you have others than just the standard library? > > Uwe Ligges > > > > Peter Keller > > Wildlife Biologist > > Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge > > > > > > > > > > Uwe Ligges > > <lig...@statistik > > .tu-dortmund.de> To > > peter_kel...@fws.gov > > 04/24/2009 12:24 cc > > PM r-help@r-project.org > > Subject > > Re: [R] > > update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) > > returns Error: invalid version > > specification NA in 2.9.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just a guess: We had an issues with malformed PACKAGES files in the > > Windows repositories. > > > > Maybe you are affected here. > > Can you please try in 24 hours from now to do that again using the > > mirror in Austria. > > > > If the problem persists, please let me know. > > > > Thank you, > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > peter_kel...@fws.gov wrote: > >> I installed R-2.9.0 yesterday, and followed the instructions in the R for > >> Windows FAQ, 2.8 What's the best way to upgrade? It reads "run > >> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE) in the new R and then delete > >> anything left of the old installation." I did this but it returned an > >> error. It's the checkBuilt=TRUE which causes it, though I don't know > > why: > >> leaving it out or changing it to checkBuilt=FALSE do not return errors. > >> > >>> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE) > >> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > >> Error: invalid version specification NA > >> > >>> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) > >> Error: invalid version specification NA > >> > >> Peter Keller > >> Wildlife Biologist > >> Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
