Bug#581829: r-cran-xtable: package built before R 2.10.0 and no longer useable

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Package: r-cran-xtable
Version: 1.5.5-1
Severity: grave

edd at ron:~$ R

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R> library(xtable)
Error: package 'xtable' was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install it
R> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n


That is serious as it blocks not only xtable but all packages using xtable.


edd at ron:~$ dpkg -l r-cran-xtable
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                   Version                                Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii  r-cran-xtable                          1.5.5-1                                GNU R coerce data to LaTeX and HTML tables
edd at ron:~$ 




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages r-cran-xtable depends on:
ii  r-base-core                   2.11.0-1   GNU R core of statistical computat

r-cran-xtable recommends no packages.

r-cran-xtable suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


-- 
  Regards, Dirk