[R] yet another update error

[Alexandre Aguiar]

Hi,

After upgrading R I always update installed packages to the new version. 
This time an error I have never seen or heard of appeared: thousands, 
perhaps millions of lines like the ones below.

--------------8><--------------
error reading package index 
file /usr/local/lib/R/library/tcltk2/tklibs/datefield0.2/pkgIndex.tcl: 
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index 
file /usr/local/lib/R/library/tcltk2/tklibs/tooltip1.4/pkgIndex.tcl: too 
many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index 
file /usr/local/lib/R/library/tcltk2/tklibs/ttktheme_plastik/pkgIndex.tcl: 
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index 
file /usr/local/lib/R/library/tcltk2/tklibs/ttktheme_keramik/pkgIndex.tcl: 
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
error reading package index 
file /usr/local/lib/R/library/tcltk2/tklibs/getstring0.1/pkgIndex.tcl: 
too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
--------------8><--------------

Left the process running during almost four hours and not only never 
returned but also had to be explcitly killed (ctrl-c won't do the job).

Attached here the scripts I use to perform all upgrades and updates 
unattended as cron jobs. But don't think they are the culprits. :-)

Thanks.



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Alexandre

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