output is lost until sink() is issued... the 'problem' shown in the following example lies in utils::promptData
setClass("A", representation(x="numeric"))
[1] "A"
Z = new("A", x=4)
prompt(Z)
Created file named 'Z.Rd'. Edit the file and move it to the appropriate directory.
setClass("A", representation(x="numeric", y="numeric"))
[1] "A"
prompt(Z)
Error in FUN(c("x", "y")[[2L]], ...) :
no slot of name "y" for this object of class "A"
date() sink() date()
[1] "Sun Jun 28 23:45:35 2009"
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-06-23 r48824) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: [1] C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base other attached packages: [1] ALL_1.4.5 Biobase_2.5.4 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.10.0
Vincent Carey, PhD Biostatistics, Channing Lab 617 525 2265