Lattice: no grid name space

"Edzer" == Edzer J Pebesma <e.pebesma at geog.uu.nl>
    on Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:56:57 +0100 writes:

Edzer> The following now occurs to me when I try to load
    Edzer> lattice (R 1.7.1, debian stable):

    >> library(lattice)
    Edzer> Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()),
    Edzer> keep.source) : package `grid' does not have a name
    Edzer> space Error in library(lattice) : package/namespace
    Edzer> load failed

    Edzer> I did an update.packages() as root recently.  Any
    Edzer> idea what's wrong?  -- Edzer

I guess you have a too recent version of lattice for your "old"
version of R.