Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-05-18 3:19 AM, Andreas Borg wrote: Hi all, I'd like to add another suggestion: Henrik Bengtsson schrieb: 6. User starts R. R crashes with "Fatal error: unable to restore saved object in .RData" because 'fortunes' is not installed for this new version of R. There is also an error messag

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-18 Thread Andreas Borg
Hi all, I'd like to add another suggestion: Henrik Bengtsson schrieb: 6. User starts R. R crashes with "Fatal error: unable to restore saved object in .RData" because 'fortunes' is not installed for this new version of R. There is also an error message before that reporting "Error in loadName

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-17 Thread Mark.Bravington
rine Lab Hobart Australia From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch [murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 May 2011 20:54 To: Henrik Bengtsson Cc: R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash aft

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-05-16 11:59 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Great, thanks for this. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: A simple version of a fix is now in R-devel: if the .RData file can't be loaded during startup, an error message is printed, and R starts with an empty workspace. I'

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-16 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Great, thanks for this. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > A simple version of a fix is now in R-devel:  if the .RData file can't be > loaded during startup, an error message is printed, and R starts with an > empty workspace. I've just verified with the R v2.14.0 devel (20

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
A simple version of a fix is now in R-devel: if the .RData file can't be loaded during startup, an error message is printed, and R starts with an empty workspace. The name of the .RData file is printed. It's usually just ".RData", because that's what R tries to load; the file will be in the

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/05/2011 1:55 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: This might have been discussed before, but below is a "not-so-unlikely" use case where the user follows normal procedures, updates R to a major release version, and then R crashes: Thanks for putting together this nice reproducible example. I thi

Re: [Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-12 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > This might have been discussed before, but below is a > "not-so-unlikely" use case where the user follows normal procedures, > updates R to a major release version, and then R crashes: > > 1. Use runs R stable (e.g. v2.13.0). > 2. User i

[Rd] Reproducible use case for R crash after updating R

2011-05-12 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
This might have been discussed before, but below is a "not-so-unlikely" use case where the user follows normal procedures, updates R to a major release version, and then R crashes: 1. Use runs R stable (e.g. v2.13.0). 2. User installs a package with a namespace, e.g. install.packages("fortunes").