[Rd] Spurious warning when calling data() ?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 21:43:02 CEST 2012


On 23/10/2012 3:20 PM, Laurent Gautier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When calling data, a warning seems to have been left behind
>
> > data(package="stats", verbose=FALSE)
> Warning message:
> In data(package = "stats", verbose = FALSE) :
>     datasets have been moved from package 'stats' to package 'datasets'

What is spurious about that warning?  It's still as true now as it was 
when the move happened several years ago.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> (full version details further below).
>
> Best,
>
> Laurent
>
> > sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.15.1 Patched (2012-08-24 r60412)
>
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>
>    [1] LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>
>    [3] LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_DK.UTF-8
>
>    [5] LC_MONETARY=en_DK.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_DK.UTF-8
>
>    [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>
>    [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
>
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>
> [1] tools_2.15.1
>
> >
>
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