[R-sig-Debian] R 2.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 does not complain abt unexisting objects

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 May 2010 at 09:08, Matthieu Stigler wrote:
| Hi
| 
| I recently updated to R 2.11 and see a strange problem. When run into 
| the console, R does not warn when calling an unexisting object, see 
| below. I don't know if this is related, but I am not able to run the R 
| CMD BATCH properly... Did someone see a similar problem? Which 
| information can I provide more on this problem?
| 
| Thanks for help!
| 
| Matthieu
| 
|  $R
| 
| R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
| Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| ISBN 3-900051-07-0
| 
| R est un logiciel libre livré sans AUCUNE GARANTIE.
| Vous pouvez le redistribuer sous certaines conditions.
| Tapez 'license()' ou 'licence()' pour plus de détails.
| 
| R est un projet collaboratif avec de nombreux contributeurs.
| Tapez 'contributors()' pour plus d'information et
| 'citation()' pour la façon de le citer dans les publications.
| 
| Tapez 'demo()' pour des démonstrations, 'help()' pour l'aide
| en ligne ou 'help.start()' pour obtenir l'aide au format HTML.
| Tapez 'q()' pour quitter R.
| 
|  > abakljhdk
|  > sdfhkjh
|  >
| 
|  >sessionInfo()
| R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
| i486-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| locale:
|  [1] LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C             
|  [3] LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8   
|  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8  
|  [7] LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                
|  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C           
| [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C      
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Cannot reproduce this:

  edd at joe:~$ R
  
  R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
  Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
  ISBN 3-900051-07-0
  
  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.
  
    Natural language support but running in an English locale
  
  R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
  Type 'contributors()' for more information and
  'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
  
  Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
  'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
  Type 'q()' to quit R.
  
  R> asdasdgAf
  Error: object 'asdasdgAf' not found
  R> 

How did you start R?  What other irregular settings could you have?

I doubt this has anything to do with R 2.11.0 or any other version.  You may
have hosed something else on your system. 

-- 
  Regards, Dirk