Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis: > Right. In the case of R, the environment for a package is serialized to > a possibly compressed data file (.Rdb) with an index (.Rdx). > “Sys.which” is part of the “base” package and I cannot find a plain text > reference to “bin/which” in the binaries for “base”.
Doh! That’s a problem. The GC won’t detect those references either, which can lead to early-deletion problems. > I don’t know if we can (or should) disable compression for Rdb files. We’ll probably have to disable it. (According to ‘file’ it’s no a standard compression format like gzip; maybe raw zlib without gzip headers?) Ludo’.
