source and textConnection
On 10/22/2009 7:21 AM, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
Using todays freshly downloaded compiled version of R-2.10.0 beta let me pose this question once again:
myconn<-textConnection("print(11*11)")
source(myconn)
produces
[1] 121 Warning message: In source(myconn) : argument 'encoding = "native.enc"' will be ignored
So I get a warning about a default parameter value I did not use myself. This is somewhat strange. Up to 2.9.2 this warning did not show up, and 2.9.2 also has the encoding parameter. source(myconn,encoding="unknown") does not produce a warning. Will it remain like this? I am asking because then I have to adapt a certain mechanism in RExcel.
I think this is a bug, but it may not be serious enough to fix during code freeze, so there's a good chance it will remain in 2.10.0, but hopefully not in later releases. I'll take a look today. Duncan Murdoch