[R] update.packages

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Denis White writes:

> I seem to have something wrong in my installation when trying to
> update packages.  Thanks for any assistance...

Wait for 1.3.1 and try again.  These problems usually come from packages
installed a long time ago without valid version information.  The newer
(1.3.1) tests for outdated packages wrap the comparisons into try() and
hence no longer throw an error ...

-k

>> update.packages()
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain' length 53385 bytes
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> ..
> downloaded 52Kb

> Error in if (a[k] > b[k]) return(TRUE) else if (a[k] < b[k]) return(FALSE) : 
>         missing value where logical needed
> In addition: Warning message: 
> NAs introduced by coercion 


>> R.version
>          _                   
> platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> arch     sparc               
> os       solaris2.7          
> system   sparc, solaris2.7   
> status                       
> major    1                   
> minor    3.0                 
> year     2001                
> month    06                  
> day      22                  
> language R                   

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