R devel - May 2008 - bug in R 2.7.0 (PR#11497)

In the latest version R2.7.0 the following command does not work anymore:

      x <- eval(parse(prompt = paste("give value for x  > ")))

It does give the pompt, but the object x is not created.

We think this is due to a bug in the function parse.

best regards,
Wout Slob


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Wout.Slob at rivm.nl wrote:
> In the latest version R2.7.0 the following command does not work anymore:
>
>       x <- eval(parse(prompt = paste("give value for x  >
")))
>
> It does give the pompt, but the object x is not created.
>
> We think this is due to a bug in the function parse.
>
> best regards,
> Wout Slob
>
>   
(A more specific Subject: would have been helpful.)

More succinctly, parse() from stdin() seems to be broken:
> parse()
?a
expression()

This was not the case in January (this was the older version I had lying
around):

R version 2.6.2 alpha (2008-01-29 r44233)
....
> parse()
?a
expression(a)


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