[R] Problem with utils package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/07/2016 5:36 AM, juansantomero7432--- via R-help wrote:
> Dear List,
> I am having the following problem.
> I just installed a new version of R on Ubuntu Trust LTS, following instruction on CRAN website, but the associated utils package which got installed appears only as version 3.0.2.

How are you determining that?  Are you using packageVersion("utils")?

The version of a base package should always match the version of R, so 
if you've really got 3.0.2 there, something is seriously wrong.

Duncan Murdoch

> On an older version of R (3.1.2) which I am running on a Windows machine, the associated utils package is version 3.1.2.
> So, my question is why was such an outdated utils package installed as part of a brand new R??? Using this older version of utils is causing me all sorts of problems, and because it is part of the base package, I don't seem to be able to install a newer version of utils. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> many thanks,Juan
> Session Information below:
> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
>
> $arch
> [1] "x86_64"
>
> $os
> [1] "linux-gnu"
>
> $system
> [1] "x86_64, linux-gnu"
>
> $status
> [1] ""
>
> $major
> [1] "3"
>
> $minor
> [1] "3.1"
>
> $year
> [1] "2016"
>
> $month
> [1] "06"
>
> $day
> [1] "21"
>
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "70800"
>
> $language
> [1] "R"
>
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)"
>
> $nickname
> [1] "Bug in Your Hair"
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=zh_CN.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=zh_CN.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.3.1
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail. Get the app
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>