[ESS] Error in assign(".Last.value", .ess.lvsave
Ross Boylan
ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Fri Dec 1 18:53:30 CET 2006
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:18:09AM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer M Krug <RKrug at sun.ac.za>
> >>>>> on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:07:56 +0200 writes:
>
> Rainer> Ross Boylan wrote:
> >> I've been getting this message sporadically when I run R
> >> under ESS:
> >>> Error in assign(".Last.value", .ess.lvsave, envir =
> >>> baseenv()) :
> >> cannot change value of locked binding for '.Last.value'
> >>
> >> I haven't noticed a pattern to when it appears; it is
> >> erratic. I've been seeing it for awhile now, perhaps
> >> since upgrading to R 2.4.
> >>
> >> Can anyone illuminate what's going on?
>
> You haven't upgraded ESS.
> The new features for ESS 5.3.2, see e.g., here
>
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html#New-Features
>
> exactly mention to have addressed this problem.
> Current ESS is 5.3.3
Thank you. My distro, Debian, is at 5.3.0 even in unstable. I filed
a bug about it.
Does this problem affect any functionality, or is it just cosmetic?
>
> Since every new release of ESS is announced on this list, and
> the problem has been solved even in the second to last release,
> I could say you should blame someone ;-) ;-)
I don't know how I missed it :) I did search the archives on the
error message, but not just on .Last.value, which would have done the
trick.
Ross
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