Just downloaded and installed "R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable)
(2009-09-21 r49771)" and am happy to report that my .Rprofile loads
appropriately with no segfaults. Thanks Duncan! Mark

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> I've just committed (r49747) some changes that should fix the re-entrancy
> bug Mark reported the other day.  The problem was that R reads some files
> (e.g. Mark's .Rprofile) in a read-eval-print loop, and only parses them a
> few lines at a time.  This means that within that loop, one of the evals
> could cause it to start parsing something else. One of the changes I put in
> a few days ago got confused by this.
>
> Hopefully the latest change hasn't introduced a new bug...
>
> BTW, one of the effects of this change is that a syntax error in .Rprofile
> should now be reported on the correct line number.  In R 2.9.x the line
> number was relative to the current statement, so it was pretty meaningless.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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