From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Thu May 22 11:32:46 2008
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:32:46 +0200
Subject: [Rd] bug in R 2.7.0 (PR#11497)
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Wout.Slob at rivm.nl wrote:
> In the latest version R2.7.0 the following command does not work anymore:
>
>       x <- eval(parse(prompt = paste("give value for x  > ")))
>
> It does give the pompt, but the object x is not created.
>
> We think this is due to a bug in the function parse.
>
> best regards,
> Wout Slob
>
>   
(A more specific Subject: would have been helpful.)

More succinctly, parse() from stdin() seems to be broken:

> parse()
?a
expression()

This was not the case in January (this was the older version I had lying
around):

R version 2.6.2 alpha (2008-01-29 r44233)
....
> parse()
?a
expression(a)


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[Rd] bug in R 2.7.0 (PR#11497)
Peter Dalgaard