grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)
gblevins@mn.rr.com wrote:
Full_Name: Gregory L. Blevins
Version: 1.8
OS: Windows 2000
Submission from: (NULL) (65.29.54.28)
I see this when I open 1.8
Error in grep("united.states", Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE"), TRUE) :
5 arguments passed to "grep" which requires 6.
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Error in grep("\\[", pattern) : 5 arguments passed to "grep" which requires 6.
local({a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)})
Error in grep("^file:", contriburl) : 5 arguments passed to "grep" which
requires 6.
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This is not a bug! It works when compiling from clean sources. I guess you have unpacked new sources over old sources? Please clean the directory before unpacking a new version, and try to compile again. A couple of us ran in the same problem during the last weeks. Uwe Ligges