I think you have saved in your workspace an object whose environment is a namespace, probably mva, that is not available when .RData is loaded but is once the session is running.
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
This happened to me with R-1.7.0, Linux RH9: ------------------------------------------------------------------
q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y Warning messages: 1: namespaces may not be available when loading 2: names in persistent strings are currently ignored gb at lasker:~/R/test$ R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.0 (2003-04-16) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type `contributors()' for more information. Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type `q()' to quit R. Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : variable "biplot" was not found Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData ------------------------------------------------------------ (what is "biplot"??) But gb at lasker:~/R/test$ R --vanilla
load(".RData")
[1] ".Random.seed" ".Traceback" "f.PQL" "f.ml" "fit" [6] "hd" "last.warning" "run1" "s.dat" "t2"
------------------------------------------------------------ Seems to work. What is happening? G?ran --- G?ran Brostr?m tel: +46 90 786 5223 Department of Statistics fax: +46 90 786 6614 Ume? University http://www.stat.umu.se/egna/gb/ SE-90187 Ume?, Sweden e-mail: gb at stat.umu.se
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