Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread chuckles the clone
Thank you for your snark but it was not necessary. In fact I *have* read the "documentation". That's how I got R installed in the first place. But I followed, again, the instructions on that page and, again, I am still at version 2.13.1. (SEE BELOW) Is there some other means of causing R to upda

Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Hi Chuckles, On 07/16/2012 09:05 PM, chuckles the clone wrote: No, it is R version 2.13.1 This is the latest version apt-get is getting. Is there some advanced technique for obtaining version 2.15.1 ? Have a look here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ HTH, Tobias root:~# cat /et

Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Chuckles, On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:05 PM, chuckles the clone wrote: > No, it is R version 2.13.1 > This is the latest version apt-get is getting. > Is there some advanced technique for obtaining version 2.15.1 ? If you consider "reading the docs" as an advanced technique, then yes: http://c

Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread chuckles the clone
No, it is R version 2.13.1 This is the latest version apt-get is getting. Is there some advanced technique for obtaining version 2.15.1 ? root:~# cat /etc/motd Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-16-virtual x86_64) root:~# apt-get upgrade R Reading package lists... Done Building dependency t

Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 16.07.2012 12:44, chuckles the clone wrote: The primary error seems to be: "Creating a new generic function for "diff" in "spam" Error in setGeneric(f, where = where) : must supply a function skeleton, explicitly or via an existing function" And the full output follows. Any tho

[Rd] Non ascii character on Mac on CRAN (C locale)

2012-07-16 Thread Matthew Dowle
Dear all, A recent bug fix for data.table was for non-ascii characters in column names and grouping by those column. So, the package's test file now includes non-ascii characters to test that bug fix : # Test non ascii characters when passed as character by, #2134 x = rep(LETTERS[1:2], 3)

[Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread chuckles the clone
The primary error seems to be: "Creating a new generic function for "diff" in "spam" Error in setGeneric(f, where = where) : must supply a function skeleton, explicitly or via an existing function" And the full output follows. Any thoughts on what may be happening and/or how to work arou