[ESS] Error in assign(".Last.value", .ess.lvsave

[Rainer M Krug]

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer M Krug <RKrug at sun.ac.za>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:07:56 +0200 writes:
> 
>     Rainer> Ross Boylan wrote:
>     >> I've been getting this message sporadically when I run R
>     >> under ESS:
>     >>> Error in assign(".Last.value", .ess.lvsave, envir =
>     >>> baseenv()) :
>     >> cannot change value of locked binding for '.Last.value'
>     >> 
>     >> I haven't noticed a pattern to when it appears; it is
>     >> erratic.  I've been seeing it for awhile now, perhaps
>     >> since upgrading to R 2.4.shape
>     >> 
>     >> Can anyone illuminate what's going on?
> 
> You haven't upgraded ESS.
> The new features for ESS 5.3.2,  see e.g., here
> 
>     http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html#New-Features
> 
> exactly mention to have addressed this problem.
> Current ESS is 5.3.3
> 
> Since every new release of ESS is announced on this list, and
> the problem has been solved even in the second to last release,
> I could say you should blame someone ;-) ;-)

THis would be me. But the reson why it happened is that I used the SuSE 
rpm from the ESS website which is the older version. I will install the 
newer one today.

Rainer

> 
>     Rainer> I can not illuminate you, but I can confirm this -
>     Rainer> same happens to me.
> 
>     Rainer> R: platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu
>     Rainer> system i686, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 4.0 year
>     Rainer> 2006 month 10 day 03 svn rev 39566 language R
>     Rainer> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
> 
>     Rainer> EMACS: 21.3.1
> 
>     Rainer> ESS: 5.3.1
> 
> 
>     >>  Thanks.
>     >> 
>     >> Ross Boylan
>     >> 
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> 
>     Rainer> -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc
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> 
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-- 
Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation
Biology (UCT)

Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology
University of Stellenbosch
Matieland 7602
South Africa

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