fixPre1.8
fixes and re-assigns objects missing that information
(typically because they were loaded from a file saved with a previous
version of R.)
fixPre1.8(names, where)
fixPre1.8
, the global environment if the function
is used interactively.Objects will be fixed and re-assigned only if all the following conditions hold:
If any condition except the second fails, a warning message is generated.
Note that fixPre1.8
currently fixes only the change in
class attributes. In particular, it will not fix binary versions of
packages installed with earlier versions of R if these use
incompatible features. Such packages must be re-installed from
source, which is the wise approach always when major version changes
occur in R.