[Rd] broken save(..., compress="xy")

Hervé Pagès hpages at fhcrc.org
Fri Sep 23 20:44:32 CEST 2011


On 11-09-23 11:02 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> 2011/9/23 Hervé Pagès<hpages at fhcrc.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With current R devel and R 2.13.1:
>>
>>> aa=1:5
>>> save(aa, file="aa.rda", compress="xy")
>> Error in identical(compress, "gzip") || compress :
>>   invalid 'y' type in 'x || y'
>
> The options for compress are "gzip" "bzip2" or "xz" (and not "xy"), at
> least on my linux system. Are you sure you want "xy"?

Right, I wanted "xz", sorry... Maybe error handling could be improved
though so a typo in the input doesn't "break" the code?

Thanks,
H.

>
> Sarah
>
>> Thanks!
>> H.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
>>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>>
>> --
>
>


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