2 messages · Mark Bravington, Brian Ripley
Full_Name: Mark Bravington Version: 2.0.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (140.79.22.104) 'getAnywhere' crashes when its argument starts with a period:
getAnywhere( '.onLoad')
Error in exists(x, envir, mode, inherits) :
invalid first argument
One fix might be to replace the line
if ( !is.null(f <- getS3method(gen, cl, TRUE))) {
with
if ( nchar( gen) && !is.null(f <- getS3method(gen, cl, TRUE))) {
Mark
This was mentioned a week or so ago on R-devel and is already fixed in the
current sources: from the NEWS file
o getAnywhere() was confused by names with leading or trailing dots
(spotted by Robert McGehee)
Full_Name: Mark Bravington Version: 2.0.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (140.79.22.104) 'getAnywhere' crashes when its argument starts with a period:
It does not: it gives an error. Please do read the comment on this in the posting guide!
getAnywhere( '.onLoad')
Error in exists(x, envir, mode, inherits) :
invalid first argument
One fix might be to replace the line
if ( !is.null(f <- getS3method(gen, cl, TRUE))) {
with
if ( nchar( gen) && !is.null(f <- getS3method(gen, cl, TRUE))) {
Mark
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