Hi Gene,

Your cue to the profile was right. This line in my .Rprofile is the culprit:
makeActiveBinding(".",function() .Last.value,env=.GlobalEnv)


It's unfortunate, because I really like that feature (typing . to get the value returned by the last executed command). 

Thanks

Dominic

> Are you doing something in your profile.site file or loading a package that masks "load"?
> It seems that you're deparsing (or parsing, I can never remember which is which) the literal results of the load function.
>
> Does it work if you do this?
> save(a, file='a.RData')





On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Monsieur Do <nonaupourriel@yahoo.ca> wrote:

I've seen a number of issues with the loading of workspaces discussed previously, but here's another one... I simply can't load any saved workspace at all... Here's an example, starting with an empty workspace and creating a single variable "a".
>
>> a<-1:5
>> save.image("a.Rdata")
>> rm(a)
>> load("a.Rdata")
>Error in function ()  : unused argument(s) (quote(1:5))
>
>Any clue? I'm using R 2.13.1 on WinXP.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Dominic
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