[R] namespaces and saved objects

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Laurent Gautier wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While saving (function 'save') a 'lmList' object (pack nlme),
> R issues the warning messages:
> 1: namespaces may not be available when loading 
> 2: names in persistent strings are currently ignored 
> 3: namespaces may not be available when loading 
> 4: names in persistent strings are currently ignored 
> 
> Any pitfall I should be aware of ?

Only that you will need to have package nlme available to re-load the 
workspace.  I think these warnings have been removed in the development 
version of R.

I've removed the cause of such messages with the MASS function glm.nb() 
recently, and I guess nlme is doing similar things.  The cause was that 
negative.binomial() created a family of functions, which thereby had the 
body of negative.binomial as their environment and hence the MASS 
namespace in its environment.  As the latter was a minor nuisance, I have
manipulated the environments.

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