weirdness in sourc()ing a dump() (bug?) (PR#6857)

Duncan Murdoch · 2004-05-05T21:15:15Z

On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:53:12 -0700, Webb Sprague wrote : >Hi all, > >I dump the result of a long simulation, which I know has run to >completion and returned a fairly complex list of lists of things. >However, when I try to read it back in, I get the following error: > > > source ('../SIMULATIONS/run.1.R') >Error in structure(list(do.extinction.runs, alpha = 1.8, delta.change = >0.005, : Object "do.extinction.runs" not found Here's a simpler example: > f<-function

Duncan Murdoch

Wed, May 5, 2004 2:15 PM

On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:53:12 -0700, Webb Sprague
<wwsprague@ucdavis.edu> wrote :

Here's a simpler example:

+ {
+     return(list(call.list = as.list(match.call())))
+ }

Error in structure(list(f, y = 4), .Names = c("", "y")) : 
        Object "f" not found

This bug still appears in R-patched.

Duncan Murdoch