[R] bug in chdir option of source

[usenet@s-boehringer.de]

I apologize for not having investigated enough.

However I want to bring up the point that upgrading can be a very
tedious thing. I administer a cluster for which upgrading brings it to a
halt for several hours stopping all calculations going on. At the moment
I have no way to go from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1.

I just want to add this point to the release policy of R which
historically has very quick release cycles which on the one hand is a
very positive thing but on the other hand can be problematic with
respect to some aspects.

Thanks again, Stefan


On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:02, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Please read the posting guide (as we do ask) and use the current version
> as it asks to see if the `bug' has already been fixed.
>
> This was fixed a while ago, definitely in 2.1.1.
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 usenet at s-boehringer.de wrote:
>
> > I'm on R 2.1.0.
> >
> > In the "source" function there is a bug preventing the proper use of the
> > chdir option (which simply doesn't work).
> >
> > The problem is that in the function the following line occurs:
> > file <- file(file, "r", encoding = encoding)
> >
> > This overwrites the variable "file" and later causes the check
> >    if (chdir && is.character(file) && (path <- dirname(file)) !=
> >        ".")
> > to fail.