Problem with foreign package
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 2/2/2009 8:46 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
I tried to use write.foreign() to export to SAS this morning and got an error. When I looked at the code for writeForeignSAS() I saw this line: dfn < -df which I think should be dfn <- df So, I tried to run update.packages() to see if there was an updated version and got the following result.
That bug was fixed a few weeks ago, but a new version has not been released yet. You can get the latest source from svn: https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/foreign
Yes, and there is a good reason. No less than 3 people reported problems in 0.8-29 without reproducible examples. When I releaseed 0.8-30, I asked them to test it. Despite reminders, I am still waiting for any answer, and will wait another week. It really is unhelpful to report problems and not be prepared to answer follow-up questions nor test solutions.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595