On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Nicholas Horton wrote:
Peter,
I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a
result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully.
Yes 0.8-30 is an update on the Mac OS X distribution. It was deliberately
put out after 2.8.1 as we knew that some of the options were little tested
(we neither have access to some of the 'foreign' programs nor test
examples for many of the features).
In this case you could downgrade by re-installing the binary, or fix the
sources and re-install. The SVN archive has been updated, but I do not
intend to put out a new release until I get some responses from those who
reported bugs in 0-8-29 and have been asked to test if the bug is fixed.
All the best,
Nick
On 1/3/09 6:46 PM, "Peter Dalgaard" <p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
nhor...@email.smith.edu wrote:
here appears to be a bug in the foreign library. The following code used to
work, but now generates an error when 'package="SAS"' is specified:
ds <- read.csv("http://www.math.smith.edu/sasr/datasets/help.csv";)
# running foreign package version 0.8-30
That's one version ahead of the package in the 2.8.1 source tarball. Did
you upgrade or is the darwin binary out of sync?
library(foreign)
# this works fine
write.foreign(ds, "foo", "bar", package="Stata")
# this yields an error
write.foreign(ds, "foo", "bar", package="SAS")
# Error in writeForeignSAS(df = list(id = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, :
# object "dfn" not found
There appears to be a space between < and - in foreign:::writeForeignSAS on
or around line 15:
dfn < - df
should be
dfn <- df
Yep. That is in 0.8-30 but not in -29...
<<insert bug report here>>
--please do not edit the information below--
Version:
platform = i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
arch = i386
os = darwin8.11.1
system = i386, darwin8.11.1
status =
major = 2
minor = 8.1
year = 2008
month = 12
day = 22
svn rev = 47281
language = R
version.string = R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
Locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
Search Path:
.GlobalEnv, package:foreign, package:stats, package:graphics,
package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods,
Autoloads, package:base
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