Hi, I noticed some R-devel failures on CRAN on a package I maintain: https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_httptest.html
It appears that 'dput'/'deparse' is returning an invalid object when there is a named character vector inside a list. Here is a minimal example that reproduces the issue: > z <- list(a=c(b="foo")) > str(z) List of 1 $ a: Named chr "foo" ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "b" > dput(z) list(a = b = "foo") > parse(text=deparse(z)) Error in parse(text = deparse(z)) : <text>:1:12: unexpected '=' 1: list(a = b = ^ But it works fine if you just provide a named character vector: > dput(z$a) structure("foo", .Names = "b") I know that there were some recent improvements to 'deparse' (c73120, 73144). Among the failures on my package on R-devel on CRAN, a test run on version as old as r73150 does manifest this bug (https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc/httptest-00check.html), so the timing does suggest that those changes could be related. Neal > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2017-09-07 r73219) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Matrix products: default BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.5.0 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel