I use the org.Hs.eg.db package regularly and last night suddenly received a loadNamespace error when I tried to attach the package via library(org.Hs.eg.db). I haven't undergone any system updates recently that would account for this. Any help would be really appreciated!

Milo Smith

PhD Student, Ichan School of Sinai at Mount Sinai

> library(org.Hs.eg.db)
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'org.Hs.eg.db', details:
  call: match.arg(synchronous, c("off", "normal", "full"))
  error: 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘org.Hs.eg.db’


> traceback()
2: stop(gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s", sQuote(package)), 
       call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
1: library(org.Hs.eg.db)


> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] RSQLite_1.0.0        DBI_0.3.1            AnnotationDbi_1.24.0
[4] Biobase_2.22.0       BiocGenerics_0.8.0  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] IRanges_1.20.7 stats4_3.0.2   tools_3.0.2 

You are going to be completely borked anyway, as you have RSQLite 1.0.0 installed in an old version of BioC. That version of RSQLite breaks all older versions of BioC, so you should probably just upgrade to the current versions of R and BioC.

@James Thanks that fixed the problem