[Gretl-users] Re: error loading data directly from Gretl to R

> On 2 Jun 2021, at 22:27, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, JOSE FRANCISCO PERLES RIBES wrote: > >> Dear team: >> >> I'm loading some data to R-Studio from Gretl using the Gretl-GUI through >> the Tools==>Start GNU R==>as multiple time series,.... >> >> Using R 4.0.X there were no problems and the gretldata was appearing on my >> R sesion. However, in my first attempt after the upgrade to R.4.1.0 I get >> the following error: >> >> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18) -- "Camp Pontanezen" > [...] >> >> *Error: cannot add binding of 'vnum' to the base environment* >> >> Somebody has a clue on what is happening? > > In the NEWS for the R 4.1.0 release, we have: "The base > environment and its namespace are now locked (so one can no > longer add bindings to these or remove from these)." This seems > to mean that we can't define any constants ("bind" any > identifiers) in gretl.Rprofile, which is a little utility script > that we source from within R to set things up for gretl/R > interaction. > > We'll have to try to find a workaround for this new limitation. > It's not obvious to me how to proceed -- any R experts have > suggestions? I am not an accomplished Rexpert. You are using the environment variable R_PROFILE to source .../gretl.Rprofile. This is done in the base environment of R. The only workaround I can think of is to use R's source function to source gretl.Rprofile in the script Rsrc.