Hi Martin,
On 11-09-23 04:12 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
Hervé Pagès<hpa...@fhcrc.org>
on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:44:32 -0700 writes:
> On 11-09-23 11:02 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> 2011/9/23 Hervé Pagès<hpa...@fhcrc.org>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> With current R devel and R 2.13.1:
>>>
>>>> aa=1:5 save(aa, file="aa.rda", compress="xy")
>>> Error in identical(compress, "gzip") || compress :
>>> invalid 'y' type in 'x || y'
>>
>> The options for compress are "gzip" "bzip2" or "xz" (and
>> not "xy"), at least on my linux system. Are you sure you
>> want "xy"?
> Right, I wanted "xz", sorry... Maybe error handling could
> be improved though so a typo in the input doesn't "break"
> the code?
well, what every ' "break" the code ' means,
"break" here means that the if statement in charge of examining
user input doesn't execute properly for some invalid input.
you are right that a more informative error message makes sense
here (though, the code now is slightly longer).
I've committed such a change {svn rev 57057}.
Thank you!
H.
Martin
> Thanks, H.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>> Thanks! H.
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform:
>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>
>>> locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3]
>>> LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 [5]
>>> LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 [7]
>>> LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C
>>> LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8
>>> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices
>>> utils datasets methods base
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>
--
Hervé Pagès
Program in Computational Biology
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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