>>>>> "WQM" == William Q Meeker <wqmee...@iastate.edu>
>>>>> on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:58:26 -0500 writes:
WQM> While
>> .deparseOpts(control="S_compatible")
>> dump("foo")
WQM> did not work as I had expected,
WQM> dump("foo",control="S_compatible")
WQM> did work OK.
yes, "of course" (at least in hindsight).
Note that it's for a reason that .deparseOpts starts with a "." :
This is decades old style suggesting
"typically not to be messed with by the user"
and indeed is only used to produce the correct binary code used
by the C internal dump() code,
> .deparseOpts(control="S_compatible")
[1] 128
as you had demonstrated in your first message.
Can you propose an amendment to the help page for dump(),
source at
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/man/dump.Rd
which helps the user more clearly?
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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