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

Don McKenzie dmck at u.washington.edu
Sat May 18 04:16:16 CEST 2013


Yes. Duh.  Overthinking the "reproducible" part and responding too  
quickly.  Here's one that produces the behavior.

myfile <- data.frame(x1=runif(100000),x2=runif(100000),x3=runif(100000))
dump("myfile",file="myfileR")
source("myfileR")

The source() part takes ~10 sec. in R 2.9.2 on my old powermac, but  
hangs in 3.0.0.

Don


On 17-May-13, at 6:51 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On May 17, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Donald McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Simon -- I can't reproduce it for the list because the window it's  
>> running in always hangs and R freezes. I tried. But it basically  
>> looks like
>>
>>> dump("my.file",file="myfileR")
>>> source("myfileR")
>> HANG..... (yellow colored ball)
>>
>
> Well, you can simply provide the myfileR that hangs for you ...
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>> I will go with your suggestions below and report back if need  
>> be.   Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> On Fri, 17 May 2013, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab
US Forest Service
phone: 206-732-7824

Affiliate Professor
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
University of Washington



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