--save and memory

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr> writes:

> I agree, and I sent a message to R-bugs to this effect
> (currently filed under "startup"), although I was thinking
> in terms of interactive use. Making this a fatal error
> seems the best choice to me.

Agreed. As far as I can see, the obvious would be to add an else clause in
main.c, like this:

    if (!doneit) {
        doneit = 1;
        R_InitialData();
    }
    else
        R_Suicide("unable to restore saved data\n (remove .RData or increase mem
ory)\n");

...but that gives the following curious effect.
Interactively, you get the expected, but...

[pd@blueberry R]$ bin/R --save < /dev/null

R : Copyright 1998, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.63.0 Unstable (September 22, 1998)

....

[Previously saved workspace restored]

Error: vector heap is too small to restore data
Execution halted

The strange thing is that it actually does *not* modify .RData, so in
a sense the fix is OK, but why does it give the success message before
bailing out???

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