R help - Jan 2007 - littler+dget+stdin -> segmentation fault

Hi, I'm trying to write a series of pipes using littler, and I get the
following behaviour: Sorry if I'm just doing something witless, I'm new
to
R. I'm using the latest versions from debian testing (2.4.0 and 0.0.8).


$ r -e 'a<-dget(file=stdin()); print(a)'
?list(a=2)
Segmentation fault

In R itself this works:
> dget(file=stdin())
?list(a=2)
$a
[1] 2

As do (from the command line):

$ cat >foo
list(a=2)
$ r -e 'a<-dget(file="foo"); print(a)'
$a
[1] 2

and (using littler and scan instead of dget)

$ r -e 'a<-scan(file=stdin()); print(a)'

Thanks in advance,

John.

-- 
Contractor in Cambridge UK -- http://www.aspden.com

John Lawrence Aspden wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to write a series of pipes using littler, and I get the
> following behaviour: Sorry if I'm just doing something witless, I'm
new to
> R. I'm using the latest versions from debian testing (2.4.0 and 0.0.8).
> 
> 
> $ r -e 'a<-dget(file=stdin()); print(a)'
> ?list(a=2)
> Segmentation fault
You've found a bug which has been fixed. Expect a new version 0.0.9 of 
littler later tonight from here:

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler/

and soon after than in debian.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Jeff
-- 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner