[Rd] Bug report in foreign library (PR#13425)

[Peter Dalgaard]

nhorton at 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
> 
> 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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