From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Oct  9 15:52:46 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:52:46 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] dump (PR#9282)
In-Reply-To: <20061009125655.D229F3F02C@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
References: <20061009125655.D229F3F02C@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610091450400.29440@auk.stats>

This is not an error in R: the later format is more correct R.  Those 
packages have made unwarranted assumptions about the format produced by 
dump(), so please reports bugs in them to their maintainers.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, ehlers at c3sl.ufpr.br wrote:

> Full_Name: Ricardo Ehlers
> Version: 2.4.0
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (200.138.34.134)
>
>
> The dump function is outputing something different from previous versions. For
> example
>
>> a <- c(1,2,3); dump('a',file='test')
>
> now results in `a` <- c(1,2) instead of "a" <- c(1,2) in the file 'test'
>
> This prevents using the bayesmix package and running JAGS from within R in an
> automatic fashion.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595




[Rd] dump (PR#9282)
Brian Ripley