Helllo,
Thanks for the info. I still think these variables should not be loaded when library(spdep) is called. But I'll handle it following your suggestion. Thanks, Jeremie > It turns out that that 'x' comes from the spData package and lives > inside that package (part of its namespace). > >> spData::x > [1] 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 390 420 450 > > This is conceptually no different from other objects in package > namespace, although we are more used to seeing functions and not data > object. Another well-known example of this is: > >> base::pi > [1] 3.141593 > > So, this 'x' is *not* in your global workspace and you cannot remove > it without unloading the package. > > /Henrik >> >> >> I found a dangerous issue in the library spdep. I get variables x and y >> that cannot be removed by rm() and I don't don't how they show up. Can >> anyone reproduce this? >> >> ~$ R --vanilla >> > rm(list=ls()) >> > library(spdep) >> > x >> [1] 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 390 420 450 >> > rm(list=ls()) >> > x >> [1] 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 390 420 450 >> >> >> >> > Sys.info() >> >> sysname "Linux" >> release "4.9.0-6-amd64" >> version "#1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07)" >> nodename "freegnu" >> machine "x86_64" >> >> >> > Session >> >> >> > sessionInfo() >> >> R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) >> >> Matrix products: default >> BLAS: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so >> LAPACK: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] compiler_3.4.1 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.