AW: [Rd] anova-bug in R-version 1.0.0? (PR#470)

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:40:40 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Trenkler, Dietrich wrote:

> I think I've discovered what went wrong.
> 
> My workspace included a function wilcox.test formerly copied from
> ctest. Now ctest ist part of the distribution and because of that I
> always got the message:
> 
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
> Error in autoload("wilcox.test", "ctest") :
>         Object already exists
> 
> I didn't take care of this message. Now I removed wilcox.test, saved
> the WS, restarted R without the vanilla-option and alas, anova
> now works.
> 
> It seems that R stops initializing after encountering the error
> mentioned above. Is this correct?   

Yes, in that the rest of the system Rprofile file is skipped
and hence options show.signif.stars and show.coef.Pvalues are not set.

It looks to me as if a bit more protection is needed in print.coefmat,
at least.

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