[Rd] makeActiveBinding warning

[Luke Tierney]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 Mark.Bravington at csiro.au wrote:

> A while ago Luke Tierney remarked that the warning associated with
> 'makeActiveBinding'-- "saved workspaces with active bindings may not
> work properly when loaded into older versions of R"-- should probably be
> removed in R-devel. It's still cropping up *sporadically* with R-alpha
> of 3/4/2004, but not every time I call 'makeActiveBinding'.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> (i) is it going to go altogether with the release of R2.1? If not, I'll
> need to tweak my code to suppress the warning

It is now gone from R-devel.

> (ii) is the warning actually correct? When I experimented with this (a
> bit), it seemed to me that the binary image file contained the full
> unbound version of the object, and actually did load normally into R1.7
> (the oldest version I still have).

Yes; you have to go farther back in history than that.

luke

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