[Rd] problem loading packages (PR#559)

[Rashid Nassar]

Dear Professor Ripley,

Thank you for your reply.  What you said reminded me that I have recently 
been searching for some old data, and may well have loaded an old .RData 
file in an attempt to find them.  Thank you again.

Rashid Nassar

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 07:11:34 +0100 (BST)
> From: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: rnassar@duke.edu
> Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch, R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> Subject: Re: [Rd] problem loading packages (PR#559)
> 
> My guess is that this is due to a very old .RData, as .Dyn.libs
> disappeared a couple of years ago, I believe. In any case, 
> .GlobalEnv etc are in a .RData of recent provenance.
> 
> General warning: do not expect .RData files from alpha or beta versions
> of R to work without some cleaning.
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 rnassar@duke.edu wrote:
> 
> > Dear R team,
> > 
> > I had a strange problem that appeared suddenly, and which I'd like to
> > to mention in case it is of interest (although I suspect that I
> > may have unwittingly done something dumb: if so please accept my apology)
> > 
> > > library(ctest)      ## or any package other than "oz" that I tried
> > Error in as.character(table) : Object ".Dyn.libs" not found
> > > traceback()
> > [1] "as.character(table)"                "match(chname, 
> > .Dyn.libs)"          
> > [3] "library.dynam(\"ctest\", pkg, lib)" "firstlib(which.lib.loc, 
> > package)"  
> > [5] "library(ctest)"                    
> > 
> > I traced the problem to my .RData file, and specifically to ".AutoloadEnv"
> > 
> > > ls(all.names=TRUE)
> >  [1] ".AutoloadEnv"        ".GlobalEnv"          ".Library"           
> >  [4] ".Machine"            ".Platform"           ".PostScript.Options"
> >  [7] ".Provided"           ".Random.seed"        ".Traceback"         
> > [10] ".lib.loc"           
> > 
> > I removed the above, one at a time, and tried loading a library.  It
> > worked after I removed  ".AutoloadEnv".  I confirmed it by checking
> > that R works normally if I only remove ".AutoloadEnv".  I don't know
> > what could have caused the problem in the first place.  The contents
> > of ".AutoloadEnv" are shown below: 
> > 
> > > .AutoloadEnv
> > <environment: 0x40691ddc>
> > attr(,"name")
> > [1] "Autoloads"
> > 
> > > rm(".AutoloadEnv")
> > > library(gee)
> > > library(nlme)
> > Loading required package: nls 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > Rashid Nassar
> > 
> > --please do not edit the information below--
> > 
> > Version:
> >  platform = i586-unknown-linux
> >  arch = i586
> >  os = linux
> >  system = i586, linux
> >  status = 
> >  major = 1
> >  minor = 0.1
> >  year = 2000
> >  month = April
> >  day = 14
> >  language = R
> > 
> > Search Path:
> >  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
> > 
> > 
> > 
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