[R-sig-Debian] annoying warnings in ESS/Emacs

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 June 2006 at 14:51, Simon Blomberg wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I'm not sure if this is an R problem, a Debian problem, a GNU Emacs 
| problem or an ESS problem. I get the following warning the first time I 
| call help on a command in a session, for example:
| 
|  > ?sessionInfo
| Warning message:
| use of NULL environment is deprecated

Howdy from UseR. I think this has to do with a change in R 2.3.* and you may
be out of sync between ess and r-base-core.
 
| This only occurs in GNU Emacs, not when running R from bash, and not 
| with Xemacs. It started happening when I updated R and a lot of packages 
| to 2.3.1. I checked the archives and found this message: 

ESS adds some initialization code. I can try to compare this when I get
home. An ess upgrade may cure it.

Dirk

| http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/06/05/5278.html. My packages are 
| all up-to-date. I tried manually removing a package and re-installing it 
| using install.packages. The install went OK, but it had no effect (the 
| warning still appeared). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
| 
| I am running the Quantian distro inside a VMware virtual machine, on a 
| Windows XP Pro host.

Quantian,which I'll take about in 10 minutes, is in need of an R upgrade to
2.3.1. Hopefully in the next few weeks...

Dirk

| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Simon.
| 
|  > sessionInfo()
| Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
| i386-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
| [7] "base"
| 
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