I started the same version of R in my usual starting directory (where there's a larger .RData, whose .First is running OK right now) and then did
save( .First, file=<<whatever>>) I'm not sure exactly where the .First came from before that; I use a couple of different machines and (in the runup to 2.10) a couple of R versions. Mark -- Mark Bravington CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences Marine Laboratory Castray Esplanade Hobart 7001 TAS ph (+61) 3 6232 5118 fax (+61) 3 6232 5012 mob (+61) 438 315 623 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 18/10/2009 6:20 PM, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: >> Under R2.10.0 beta (2009-10-14 r50082) my .First does not run >> reliably. I reported this last week, but not reproducibly, and it >> seemed to go away, so I thought it might be installation-related. >> But it has now recurred reproducibly, at least on my machine. >> >> The website ftp://ftp.csiro.au/MarkBravington contains two .RData >> files each containing (only) a .First. One of them does what it >> should, and one of them doesn't. Confusingly, the OK one will >> actually trigger an error message for you, because it tries to do >> things that are specific to my machines. The not-OK one says >> "skipping .First", as below, and you'll see why it shouldn't be >> doing that. Obvioulsy, the files need renaming before you can test >> them. >> >> I haven't been able to condense the .First to something more >> succinct that shows the same fault; saving a modified .First >> frequently makes the problem go away, seemingly regardless of what >> the change is. >> >> The transcript from the not-OK version is given below > > I can reproduce the problem running the .First in the notOK.RData > file. (I don't need to rename it; just loading that file and > explicitly running .First() will do it.) > > However, if I dump the function and source it, the problem goes away. > So I suspect there is something wrong in the notOK.RData file. How > did you create it? > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
