Re: [Rd] {splines} package gone missing?

2021-05-21 Thread Randall Pruim
Thanks everyone. We are already back up and running. We just did a redo of the install and started from scratch. Actually, not quite from scratch since the packages in /usr/local that I had updated were not harmed. I’m guessing this was all a side effect of an attempt to clean up from someone

Re: [Rd] {splines} package gone missing?

2021-05-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Randall, On 20 May 2021 at 07:12, Ben Bolker wrote: | splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not "base' If you install 'r-base' rather than just the narrower 'r-base-core' you also get 'r-recommended'. So please do that, or just do sudo apt install r-recommended The gra

[Rd] Status of "**" operator

2021-05-21 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-devel
Hi All, I was just sent some older R code from circa 2004, which contains the use of the "**" operator, which is parsed as "^". From looking at ?"**", I see the following in the Note section: "** is translated in the parser to ^, but this was undocumented for many years. It appears as an ind