nchar(with(list(2),ls())) gives an internal error. This is of course a peculiar call (no names in the list), but the error is not caught cleanly.
It is not clear from the documentation whether with(list(2)...) is allowable; if it is not, it should presumably give an error. If it is, then ls shouldn't have problems with the resulting environment. > qq <- with(list(2),ls()) # An incorrect call (no names in list) > nchar(qq) Error in nchar(qq) : 'getEncChar' must be called on a CHARSXP # ls returned a bad object > qq [1]Error: 'getEncChar' must be called on a CHARSXP > qq[1] [1]Error: 'getEncChar' must be called on a CHARSXP > qq[2] [1] NA Apparently related: > with(list(a=1,2),ls()) Error in ls() : 'getEncChar' must be called on a CHARSXP --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status = major = 2 minor = 9.2 year = 2009 month = 08 day = 24 svn rev = 49384 language = R version.string = R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) Windows Vista x64 (build 6002) Service Pack 2 Locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel