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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>     on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:44:32 -0700 writes:

    > 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?

well, what every  ' "break" the code '  means,
you are right that a more informative error message makes sense
here (though, the code now is slightly longer).
I've committed such a change {svn rev 57057}.

Martin

    > 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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