As a followup, these changes have some impacts on already installed
packages, most likely including all those using lazy-loading or saved
images.
If you are building from a checked-out version of R you will need to
trigger re-installation of the recommended packages. Unix users can do
that by
rm src/library/Recommended/*.ts
make
but Windows users will best do 'make distclean; make all recommended' as a
clean is needed.
One way to re-install all other packages is
> have <- installed.packages(priority="NA")[,1]
> install.packages(have)
at least if you have them all in the main library tree or all in one
additional tree. Doing it from within R ensures that the dependency order
is maintained. If like me you have almost all CRAN packages installed
that will take quite a while.
Note that re-installing binary packages under Windows and MacOS X will not
be effective until the repositories have been rebuilt.
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I've just committed some changes to R-devel which affect environments.
> Specifically:
>
> - using NULL as an environment is now deprecated: use baseenv()
> instead. (baseenv() is already available in R 2.2.0, where it returns
> NULL. For most purposes it retains the same meaning in R-devel.) If you
> do use NULL, it will be converted to baseenv(), and a warning printed.
> For example:
>
> > f <- function(x) 1
> > environment(f) <- NULL
> Warning message:
> use of NULL environment is deprecated
> > environment(f)
> <environment: base>
>
> There may be some places where I've missed putting the conversion in
> place, and use of NULL will cause an error; please let me know if you
> find any of those. The intention is that NULL will be usable with
> warnings through to the end of the 2.3.x releases.
>
> - baseenv() is no longer its own parent. Its parent is an empty
> environment, available as emptyenv().
>
> - You can now create your own environment with emptyenv() as its
> parent. Searches for variables in such an environment will not
> automatically proceed to baseenv(), as searches do in current R releases.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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