This is wierd.... It looks like the problem appears when data(..) is immediately followed by another statement USING ``;'' ----------- rm(list=ls()) data(phones); summary(phones) Error: Object "phones" not found ls() character(0) Or also ls() character(0) data(pigs); 1:10 ##-- nothing is printed, but here 'pigs' is sourced ls() [1] "pigs" -------------- Could it be a parser bug of `` expr1 ; expr2 '' ?? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-