/src/main/attrib.c contains this comment in row_names_gets(): /* This should not happen, but if a careless user dput()s a data frame and sources the result, it will */
which svn blame says Prof Ripley placed there in r39830 with the commit message "correct the work of dput() on the row names of a data frame with compact representation." Is there a problem / better way to use the result of a hefty dput than source()ing it? This seems to work rather robustly: data(iris) source(textConnection(paste0("iris2 <- ", capture.output(dput(iris))))) identical(iris, iris2) Cheers, Michael ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel