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Is there a way to list the contents of a "save" file, i.e. the variable names, without load'ing from it first?

Why doesn't R have one, like "." in Perl or juxtaposition in awk? It does not seem impossible to introduce one, if that would be reasonable. It would seem to involve adding a table entry to main/names.c for...

The loop that echoes the arguments almost always stops too soon. It apparently does that to avoid echoing the "--args" (that had been inserted) when there are no user arguments. However, when there are user arguments, the next element of...

Re: src/main/dotcode.c:do_dotCode() The value, if there is one, of a function called by .C or .Fortran is not captured, so one needs a wrapper. To avoid that, the user would have to declare that there...

I agree, and the text is less than ideal in several other places. But I don't especially like your phrase 'infinite range', even though the idea is right. I think the necessary terminology already exists. How about something like...

Sounds like a bug to me, at least in documentation. I would say that it ignores them by accident. I doubt that skipping files is intended. The problem appears to be that the 'files' argument to tar() becomes the 'path...

Terrific, and I appreciate your thoughts and encouragement. So, getting back on-list, I propose a backward-incompatible change, with or without --verbose, that the --args be included in the 'av' array, and passed to R, only if there are...