[R] dump() bug?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> It is not a bug, but it may not be intended.  It is a consequence of
> namespaces.  Since dump is in base, it searches base before the user's
> workspace.  That is something that seems only to be documented in NEWS.

Sounds like the natural way to fix this would be to add an envir=
argument, defaulting to parent.frame(), and pass it down to the
internal routine?

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