Peter, thanks for your comments. The reason I have taken this issue
to R-devel is from the advice of Kurt Hornik. An update to my package
oro.nifti is being refused by CRAN because it fails on the
_development_ version of R on 32-bit linux. As we have just discussed
(and thanks to Matt's input),
I have installed both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of R2.12.0 (2010-06-15
r52300) on my Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit system. I observe the following behavior
when running the examples from base::connections. There appears to be a
problem with seek() on a .gz file when using a 32-bit installation of
R2.12.0,
I have received the following error for my package oro.nifti under "CRAN
checks" for r-devel-linux-ix86; i.e.,
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-ix86/oro.nifti-00check.html
- using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-06-12 r52259)
- using platform: i686-
