update.packages() and parse(text="A B") (PR#966)

A fixed version of gregmisc has been uploaded.  It should show up in CRAN
shortly.

-Greg



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  > From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
  > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 10:49 AM
  > To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
  > Cc: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
  > Subject: Re: [Rd] update.packages() and parse(text="A B") (PR#966)
  > 
  > 
  > This is a known problem with gregmisc already reported to 
  > maintainer and
  > fixed on my server (so it will propagate to CRAN shortly).  
  > An update
  > to gregmisc is promised shortly.
  > 
  > Something similar happens on Unix (which is where I spotted it).  I
  > think you need to REMOVE gregmisc to fix it.
  > 
  >

> 
  > > Hi!
  > >
  > > I just used the following command on our NT-Server:
  > >
  > >   update.packages()
  > > Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : parse error
  > >
  > > The problem is caused by the package gregmisc:
  > >
  > >   x <- CRAN.packages()
  > >   x[which(x == "gregmisc"),]
  > >
  > >    Package    Version   Priority     Bundle    Depends
  > > "gregmisc"    "0.1.3"       "NA"       "NA"       "R "
  > >
  > >
  > > The error occurs in the line
  > >
  > >   z[k] <- eval(parse(text = comptext))
  > >
  > > in package.dependencies(), because in this case is:
  > >
  > >   comptext
  > > [1] "\"1.2.3\"  \"R \""
  > >
  > >
  > > Best regards,
  > > Uwe Ligges
  > >
  > >
  > > --please do not edit the information below--
  > >
  > > Version:
  > >  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
  > >  arch = x86
  > >  os = Win32
  > >  system = x86, Win32
  > >  status =
  > >  major = 1
  > >  minor = 2.3
  > >  year = 2001
  > >  month = 04
  > >  day = 26
  > >  language = R
  > >
  > > Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6
  > >
  > > Search Path:
  > >  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
  > >
  > > 
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