R devel - Feb 2015 - save.image Doesn't Save Objects When Browsing

The documentation states that "save.image() is just a short-cut for
save(list = ls(all = TRUE), file = ".RData")". However, if I do

Browse[1]> ls(all=TRUE)
[1] "expression"         "orderedFeatures"   
"predictParams"
[4] "resubstituteParams" "trainParams"       
"verbose"
Browse[1]> save.image("BROWSE.RData")

load("BROWSE.RData") shows different variables than ls() did.
Explicitly typing

Browse[1]> save(list = ls(all = TRUE), file = ".RData")

causes the variables in the current environment to be saved.

Is the documentation of save.image() missing a special case ?

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia

On 20/02/2015 01:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
> The documentation states that "save.image() is just a short-cut for
save(list = ls(all = TRUE), file = ".RData")". However, if I do
>
> Browse[1]> ls(all=TRUE)
> [1] "expression"         "orderedFeatures"   
"predictParams"
> [4] "resubstituteParams" "trainParams"       
"verbose"
> Browse[1]> save.image("BROWSE.RData")
>
> load("BROWSE.RData") shows different variables than ls() did.
Explicitly typing
>
> Browse[1]> save(list = ls(all = TRUE), file = ".RData")
>
> causes the variables in the current environment to be saved.
>
> Is the documentation of save.image() missing a special case?
You are missing the other arguments.  What it actually says is

     ?save.image()? is just a short-cut for ?save my current
      workspace?,

and for that you need to specify envir=.GlobalEnv .
>
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> Dario Strbenac
> PhD Student
> University of Sydney
> Camperdown NSW 2050
> Australia
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