From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Mon Oct 19 17:56:04 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:56:04 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Bug with .First  in R 2.10
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On 10/18/2009 6:58 PM, Mark.Bravington at csiro.au wrote:
> I started the same version of R in my usual starting directory (where there's a larger .RData, whose .First is running OK right now) and then did
> 
> save( .First, file=<<whatever>>)
> 
> I'm not sure exactly where the .First came from before that; I use a couple of different machines and (in the runup to 2.10) a couple of R versions.

I've tracked this down to a problem when the .First is loaded from the 
image file, likely due to a change on Sept 29.  Hopefully it will be 
fixed before release.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Bug with .First in R 2.10
Duncan Murdoch