From tplate at acm.org  Tue Nov 21 17:57:06 2006
From: tplate at acm.org (Tony Plate)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:57:06 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Documentation error for data.restore() in package "foreign"
 (was Re: [R] Import problem with S-Plus 7.0 dataset)
In-Reply-To: <20061103160729.BMD73634@po-d.temple.edu>
References: <20061103160729.BMD73634@po-d.temple.edu>
Message-ID: <45632FE2.9010706@acm.org>

BTW, the help file for data.restore says:

Value: an R version of the S3 object.

It looks like this may need correction (when I try this function out, it 
returns the file name, not the object restored from the file.)

I tried this in R 2.4.0:

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
[7] "base"

other attached packages:
  foreign     ncdf
"0.8-17"    "1.6"
 >

-- Tony Plate

(redirected from an old thread on R-help -- I was waiting until I had R 
2.4.0 installed so that I could verify that this was still a problem. 
Apologies if it has been fixed since then)

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> It looks like it works.  The result you printed is
> the name of the file that data.store read.  The name of the
> variable is the same as the name you called it in S-Plus.
> 
> type
>    data[1:5,]
> and you should see your data.frame.
> 
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[Rd] Documentation error for data.restore() in package "foreign" (was Re: [R] Import problem with S-Plus 7.0 dataset)
Tony Plate