[R] namespaces not available

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think you have saved in your workspace an object whose environment is
a namespace, probably mva, that is not available when .RData is loaded but 
is once the session is running.

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Göran Broström wrote:

> This happened to me with R-1.7.0, Linux RH9:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > q()
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
> Warning messages: 
> 1: namespaces may not be available when loading 
> 2: names in persistent strings are currently ignored 
> 
> 
> gb at lasker:~/R/test$ R
> 
> R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
> Version 1.7.0  (2003-04-16)
> 
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details.
> 
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type `contributors()' for more information.
> 
> Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or
> `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> Type `q()' to quit R.
> 
> Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : variable "biplot" was not found
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> (what is "biplot"??)
> 
> But
> 
> gb at lasker:~/R/test$  R --vanilla
> 
> > load(".RData")
>  [1] ".Random.seed" ".Traceback"   "f.PQL"        "f.ml"         "fit"         
>  [6] "hd"           "last.warning" "run1"         "s.dat"        "t2"          
> > 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seems to work. What is happening?
> 
> Göran
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