Hello,
>This is *very* unlikely to be a bug. People should always exercise a >great deal of caution about conjecturing bugs when they encounter a >phenomenon that they don't understand. Ok, I over reacted and I should let the package maintainers qualify what is a bug or not. My point is that it is surprising to have access these variables in the global environment when loading the spdep library. I normally I would expect the following rm(list=ls()) myfun <- function(x){ y+ 33} > myfun(x) > Error in myfun(4) : object 'y' not found But this is not cool > myfun() [1] 33 63 93 123 153 183 213 243 273 303 333 363 393 423 453 483 > It puzzles me that your sessionInfo() doesn't show something like: You are right. My apologies. I confused sessions when I pasted the sessionInfo. Allow me to correct. <on the Terminal> R --vanilla -q > ls() character(0) > library(spdep) Loading required package: sp Loading required package: Matrix Loading required package: spData To access larger datasets in this package, install the spDataLarge package with: `install.packages('spDataLarge')` > ls() character(0) > sessionInfo() R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Matrix products: default BLAS: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so LAPACK: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] spdep_0.7-7 spData_0.2.6.7 Matrix_1.2-10 sp_1.2-5 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] lattice_0.20-35 deldir_0.1-14 gtools_3.5.0 [4] MASS_7.3-47 grid_3.4.1 nlme_3.1-131 [7] coda_0.19-1 data.table_1.10.4-3 gdata_2.18.0 [10] LearnBayes_2.15 gmodels_2.16.2 boot_1.3-19 [13] splines_3.4.1 compiler_3.4.1 filehash_2.4-1 [16] expm_0.999-2 > x [1] 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 390 420 450 I think Henrik Bengtsson has identified the issue see the next thread. Best regards, Jeremie ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.