[R] Problem with library "car"

[Uwe Ligges]

John Santander wrote:
> I am using the Unix version of R (version 1.7.0), installed via fink on 
> a G4 Macintosh. I recently upgraded from version 1.6.0 and found that 
> the "car" library now has a problem:
> 
> ---Begin transcript---
> 
>> library(car)
> 
> 
> Attaching package 'car':
> 
> 
>        The following object(s) are masked from package:base :
> 
>         dfbeta dfbeta.lm dfbetas dfbetas.lm hatvalues hatvalues.lm 
> influence influence.glm influence.lm rstudent rstudent.glm rstudent.lm
> 
>> x <- 1:10
>> y <- 2*x+3+2*rnorm(10)
>> model<-lm(y~x)
>> qq.plot(model)
> 
> Bus error
> 
> ---End transcript---
> 
> No plot appears. After the bus error, R no longer operates normally, and 
> I have to kill the terminal window in order to quit.
> 
> i just upgraded from R version 1.6, under which "car" had no problems.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas?


Two ideas:

a) Reinstall a recent version of "car".
b) Upgrading to R-1.7.1, which is recent, is always a good idea.

Uwe Ligges

> John