From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Tue Jun 24 08:21:56 1997
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:21:56 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: funny behavior of  data(.)
Message-ID: <199706240721.JAA04748@sophie.ethz.ch>

This is wierd....

It looks like the problem appears when  data(..) is immediately followed 
by another statement USING ``;''
		     -----------	
 rm(list=ls())
 data(phones); summary(phones)
	Error: Object "phones" not found
 ls()
	character(0)

Or also

 ls()
	character(0)
 data(pigs); 1:10
			##-- nothing is printed, but here 'pigs' is sourced
 ls()
	[1] "pigs"


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Could it be a parser bug of  `` expr1 ; expr2 '' ??




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R-alpha: funny behavior of data(.)
Martin Maechler