Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902021542400.31687@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2009-02-02T15:48:37Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Problem with foreign package
In-Reply-To: <49870623.3030402@stats.uwo.ca>
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.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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