get: problem with environments

Hi,

I am getting the same error message as Michael got (R terminal (R 2.15) on Ubuntu 12.04).


? testfun(x=5)
#Error in sys.frame(which = x) : not that many frames on the stack
?print(testfun(x=6))
#Error in sys.frame(which = x) : not that many frames on the stack

A.K.

----- Original Message -----
From: R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>
To: Martin Ivanov <tramni at abv.bg>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: [R] get: problem with environments

? Dear R users,

I am running R-2.15.1 in Linux Slackware64-14.0. Here is my minimal working example:

testfun <- function (x) {
? a <- 0;
? sapply(X="a", FUN=get, envir=sys.frame(which=x));
}

Inside R, that is R called from within a Linux terminal, the following code works:
testfun(x=5)
print(testfun(x=6))
But within rkward the above code fails and the following works:
testfun(x=1)
print(testfun(x=2))

As you can see, the number of contexts up the call stack that contain the variable "a"
varies depending on the implementation. If I call testfun() from within print(), I have to go
one context up the call stack than if I call testfun() alone by itself. This implies
some inherent instability of my code.

Unlike you, I don't get testfun(x = 5) to work in a terminal emulator.
As expected, I only get x =1 and print(... x = 2) to work and I just
tried this with R 2.15.0 and R devel, both in Terminal and by way of
ESS.? It could be a buglet introduced later into the 2.15 branch, but
that seems unlikely. As expected,

testfun(5)

Error in sys.frame(which = x) : not that many frames on the stack

Can someone else confirm the behavior you see?

Cheers,
Michael

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