Re: [Rd] load.R patch suggestion

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ben Bolker > on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:03:26 +0200 writes: > Inspired by > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7487778/could-you-tell-me-what-this-error-means > I wrote the following very small (one-line) patch which > returns an *informative* error message when R tri

[Rd] load.R patch suggestion

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Bolker
Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7487778/could-you-tell-me-what-this-error-means I wrote the following very small (one-line) patch which returns an *informative* error message when R tries to load a zero-byte file rather than Error in if (!grepl("RD[AX]2\n", magic)) { : argument i