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.
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:
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 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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