[R-SIG-Mac] source() hangs on import

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 17, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Don McKenzie wrote:

> I checked the archives since the release of R 3.0.0 and didn't see anything on this.
> 
> Trying to import data previously exported with dump(), source() hangs and I have to force quit R.  This happens with data objects
> as small as 5 kb.  

Do you have a reproducible example?


> Has anyone encountered this and found a workaround?  Is there now a preferred method to export R objects?
> 

The preferred method has always been to use serialization (save/load or saveRDS/readRDS).

Cheers,
Simon


> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> on a macbook pro with 4 gb RAM.
> 
>> R.version
>               _                           
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0   
> arch           x86_64                      
> os             darwin10.8.0                
> system         x86_64, darwin10.8.0        
> status                                     
> major          3                           
> minor          0.0                         
> year           2013                        
> month          04                          
> day            03                          
> svn rev        62481                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
> nickname       Masked Marvel   
> 
> 
> 
> Don McKenzie
> Research Ecologist
> Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab
> US Forest Service
> 
> Affiliate Professor
> School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
> University of Washington
> 
> phone: 206-732-7824
> dmck at uw.edu
> 
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