On 10/30/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is as documented in ?source, and so is not a bug.
Indeed. You are of course correct, sorry I missed that.
What still remains is that dump() creates a file that won't source,
without warning or stopping (since the output is basically useless).
Note that ?dump states that "A warning is issued if it is likely that
problems will arise" (in different context, but still).
Best Regards
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Full_Name: Martin Kober
> > Version: 2.6.0
> > OS: Vista & Linux
> > Submission from: (NULL) (137.208.185.169)
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I just stumbled upon a problem with file source()ing:
> >
> > R will fail to source a file if it contains lines longer than about 8192
> > bytes
> > ("input buffer overflow").
> >
> > While it's save to say that human-written code won't contain lines that
> > long,
> > dump()ed data structures may reasonably contain strings longer than that
> > (as in
> > my case).
> >
> > What's more, R will happily help you to create such files:
> >
> > x = paste(rep("12345678", 1024), collapse="")
> > dump("x")
> > source("dumpdata.R") ## this fails (on Linux & Vista)
> >
> > I'm now using save/load, which is probably better in that case anyway.
> > Still, I would be nice if source() worked or at least dump() would break
> > lines to avoid this issue.
>
> It would be even nicer if users read the documentation rather than
> expected the developers to do so for them.
>
> > Best regards,
> > Martin Kober
> >
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