Peter,
I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a
result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully.
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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Nicholas Horton
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Smith College
Clark Science Center, Northampton, MA 01063-0001
http://www.math.smith.edu/~nhorton
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