On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 Glenn.Treacy@ilim.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using S+2000 on NT4 R3 and puzzled at the behaviour of the library
> function. I have two libraries, one called String and the other
> String_restored resident in a folder at c:\Transfer. When I execute
> library(section=String_restored,first=F,lib.loc="c:\\Transfer") I find that
> the library String has been attached not String_restored. If I remove the
> String library and run the same command I get an erro telling me that 'No
> section "String" in the library directories etc. etc.'. It seems that the
> underscore character is causing problems. The hypen character seems to cause
> the same problem. Can anyone explain why this is happening and what the
> rules are fo acceptable library names?
The rules are same as for any other S object: an argument is an S object
or the name of one. Since the (Unix) help page says
section
character string or name giving the name of the section of the
library to attach.
you can quote non-standard names like "String_restored" on Unix, and AFAIK
on S+2000. You are first assigning `restored' to `String' and then
trying to open "String".
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