[ESS] Error in assign(".Last.value", .ess.lvsave

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer M Krug <RKrug at sun.ac.za>
>>>>>     on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:07:56 +0200 writes:

    Rainer> Ross Boylan wrote:
    >> I've been getting this message sporadically when I run R
    >> under ESS:
    >>> Error in assign(".Last.value", .ess.lvsave, envir =
    >>> baseenv()) :
    >> cannot change value of locked binding for '.Last.value'
    >> 
    >> I haven't noticed a pattern to when it appears; it is
    >> erratic.  I've been seeing it for awhile now, perhaps
    >> since upgrading to R 2.4.
    >> 
    >> Can anyone illuminate what's going on?

You haven't upgraded ESS.
The new features for ESS 5.3.2,  see e.g., here

    http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html#New-Features

exactly mention to have addressed this problem.
Current ESS is 5.3.3

Since every new release of ESS is announced on this list, and
the problem has been solved even in the second to last release,
I could say you should blame someone ;-) ;-)

    Rainer> I can not illuminate you, but I can confirm this -
    Rainer> same happens to me.

    Rainer> R: platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu
    Rainer> system i686, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 4.0 year
    Rainer> 2006 month 10 day 03 svn rev 39566 language R
    Rainer> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)

    Rainer> EMACS: 21.3.1

    Rainer> ESS: 5.3.1


    >>  Thanks.
    >> 
    >> Ross Boylan
    >> 
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