Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504181215400.18546@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-04-18T11:16:59Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: R2.0.1 for Mac OS X 10.3 problem
In-Reply-To: <35ba06a3ec0b3b82ffc99f4c858594ea@landcareresearch.co.nz>
It did not `break R': just rename your .RData which appears to have become
corrupted.
Please always start R with --vanilla before concluding it is broken.
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg Arnold wrote:
> This combination was operating satisfactorily until I tried updating lme4 and
> Matrix. My attempts to do this ultimately broke R. The R console appears
> briefly, then collapses. I have tried downloading and reinstalling R
> without success. Typing 'R' into Terminal gives the error message bring up
> the usual introduction, then the error message:
> Error in methods:::mlistMetaName(mi, ns) :
> The methods object name for "coerce" must include the name of the
> package that contains the generic function, but there is no generic function
> of this name
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
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