I found a hack to avoid this bug(?): My personal .Rprofile file loads
'survival'. The hack is to remove/rename the file.
Another hack is to log in (su -) as root (sudo -s doesn't help).
This behaviour is also present when I run 'update.packages', even if I
start R by 'sudo R --vanilla'! I hav
I'm trying to build R-patched_2010-02-17.tar.gz, 'make' ends with
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/local/src/R/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
begin installing recommended package boot
Loading required package: survival
Error: package 'survival' could not be loaded
In addition: Warning mess