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...last one from me, anyway... The "parse" function seems to give erratic behaviour when used in conjunction with "pushBack" on an open connection (R1.6.1, Windows 2000). Try this: > { cat( c( '1', 'a+b', '2'), file='r123.r', sep='\n'); tcon_ file( 'r123.r'); open( tcon); print( readLines( tcon, n=1)); pushBack( c( 'a+b'), tcon); print( parse( file=tcon, n=1)); print( readLines( tcon)); close( tcon); unlink( 'r123.r' } [1] "1" Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 1 But if I...