more problems when using "installWithVers"

Tony,

The problem is specific to your example:

install.packages("ash")

...

install.packages("ash", installWithVers=TRUE)
library("ash", version="1.0-9")
search()

[1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:ash_1.0-9" "package:methods"
  [4] "package:stats"     "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices"
  [7] "package:utils"     "package:datasets"  "Autoloads"
[10] "package:base"

and lies in lattice's .onLoad (as the message says, and hence the Cc: to 
Deepayan).  That has

.onLoad <- function(lib, pkg)
{
     library.dynam(pkg, pkg, lib )
     lattice.options(.defaultLatticeOptions())
     lattice.setStatus(.defaultLatticeStatus())
}

which is incorrect: it should be library.dynam("lattice", pkg, lib)
OTOH, 'ash' has it correctly and so works.

I am not sure BTW that lattice_0.12-7 is necessarily compatible with R 
2.2.0.

Brian

R-devel, SVN revision 35729 (this morning, euro-time)

So far, I'm having awful luck with the "installWithVers" flags.

Recent example:

I can install.packages("lattice", installWithVers=TRUE)
successfully (no errors, at least it looks like a successful install),
but can't load it:

Error in library.dynam(pkg,pkg,lib) : shared library 'lattice_0.12-7' not found
Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamesspace' for 'lattice_0.12-7'
Error: package/namespace load filed for 'lattice'

Did you really get those typos?  I don't.

Error in library.dynam(pkg, pkg, lib) : shared library 'lattice_0.12-7' not found
Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'lattice_0.12-7'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'lattice'

It's there.  (note: no problems on a different installation, avoiding
the "installWithVers" flags for package installation).

best,
-tony

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Muttenz, Switzerland.
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