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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:37:15 -0700
Subject: [Rd] broken save(..., compress="xy")
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Hi Martin,

On 11-09-23 04:12 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Herv? Pag?s<hpages at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>>      on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:44:32 -0700 writes:
>
>      >  On 11-09-23 11:02 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>      >>  Hi,
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>  2011/9/23 Herv? Pag?s<hpages at fhcrc.org>:
>      >>>  Hi,
>      >>>
>      >>>  With current R devel and R 2.13.1:
>      >>>
>      >>>>  aa=1:5 save(aa, file="aa.rda", compress="xy")
>      >>>  Error in identical(compress, "gzip") || compress :
>      >>>  invalid 'y' type in 'x || y'
>      >>
>      >>  The options for compress are "gzip" "bzip2" or "xz" (and
>      >>  not "xy"), at least on my linux system. Are you sure you
>      >>  want "xy"?
>
>      >  Right, I wanted "xz", sorry... Maybe error handling could
>      >  be improved though so a typo in the input doesn't "break"
>      >  the code?
>
> well, what every  ' "break" the code '  means,

"break" here means that the if statement in charge of examining
user input doesn't execute properly for some invalid input.

> you are right that a more informative error message makes sense
> here (though, the code now is slightly longer).
> I've committed such a change {svn rev 57057}.

Thank you!

H.

>
> Martin
>
>      >  Thanks, H.
>
>      >>
>      >>  Sarah
>      >>
>      >>>  Thanks!  H.
>      >>>
>      >>>>  sessionInfo()
>      >>>  R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform:
>      >>>  x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>      >>>
>      >>>  locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3]
>      >>>  LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 [5]
>      >>>  LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 [7]
>      >>>  LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C
>      >>>  LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8
>      >>>  LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>      >>>
>      >>>  attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices
>      >>>  utils datasets methods base
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>  --
>      >>
>>
>
>


-- 
Herv? Pag?s

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