[R] identify object that causes "Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘R.utils’"

[John Kane]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: h.wickham at gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:48:01 -0500
> To: landronimirc at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] identify object that causes "Error in
> loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘R.utils’"
> 
>> I must admit that I'm a bit surprised by this. I was always under the
>> impression that saving/restoring workspaces was the proper workflow in
>> R. If you use R interactively (e.g., not by running scripts), how else
>> would you store your data, intermediary results, etc., while working
>> on a project? Am I missing something?
> 
> You don't _store_ intermediate results - you recreate them from your
> script.  If they are time consuming, then you can use readRDS/saveRDS
> to cache the results. If you don't start with a clean workspace
> frequently, it's difficult to tell whether or not your code is
> reproducible.
> 
> Hadley
> 
> --
> Chief Scientist, RStudio
> http://had.co.nz/

Not to mention http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg196997.html

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

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