Re: [Rd] Internal error in 'ls' for pathological environments (PR#14035)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
macra...@alum.mit.edu wrote: nchar(with(list(2),ls())) gives an internal error. This is of course a peculiar call (no names in the list), but the error is not caught cleanly. It is not clear from the documentation whether with(list(2)...) is allowable; if it is not, it should presumably give an

Re: [Rd] Internal error in 'ls' for pathological environments (PR#14035)

2009-11-01 Thread p . dalgaard
macra...@alum.mit.edu wrote: nchar(with(list(2),ls())) gives an internal error. This is of course a peculiar call (no names in the list), but the error is not caught cleanly. It is not clear from the documentation whether with(list(2)...) is allowable; if it is not, it should presumably

Re: [Rd] Internal error in 'ls' for pathological environments (PR#14035)

2009-11-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Peter Dalgaard p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk wrote: macra...@alum.mit.edu wrote: nchar(with(list(2),ls())) gives an internal error. This is of course a peculiar call (no names in the list), but the error is not caught cleanly. It is not clear from the

Re: [Rd] Internal error in 'ls' for pathological environments (PR#14036)

2009-11-01 Thread ggrothendieck
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Peter Dalgaard p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk w= rote: macra...@alum.mit.edu wrote: nchar(with(list(2),ls())) gives an internal error. This is of course a peculiar call (no names in the list), but the error is not caught cleanly. It is not clear from the

Re: [Rd] parse_Rd and/or lazyload problem

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 31/10/2009 10:18 PM, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: Does this happen in R-patched? I've seen similar errors in 2.10.0, but not in a current build. Yes, still there in R-patched. (Still haven't got to your code, this was in mine. I'm reluctant to spend time on code that is messing with

Re: [Rd] parse_Rd and/or lazyload problem

2009-11-01 Thread Mark.Bravington
Okay, then we both agree we should drop it. Duncan Murdoch No we don't. I can't provide a functioning mvbutils, or debug, until this is resolved. I am trying to be a good citizen and prepare reproducible bug reports-- e.g. the 3 line example. It would be quicker for me to write some ugly

Re: [Rd] parse_Rd and/or lazyload problem

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2009 3:12 PM, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: Okay, then we both agree we should drop it. Duncan Murdoch No we don't. I can't provide a functioning mvbutils, or debug, until this is resolved. I am trying to be a good citizen and prepare reproducible bug reports-- e.g. the 3 line

[Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread alexios
Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very convenient, be reinstated...couldn't an online poll have been conducted to gauge the support of this format by window's

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very convenient, be reinstated...couldn't an online poll have been

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very convenient, be reinstated...couldn't an online

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2009 5:47 PM, alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows,

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help?  One thing it did well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search.  I would like to get those back, in the HTML help.  Is there anything

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help? One thing it did well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search. I would like to get those back, in the HTML

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I found the option in ?options and just tried it with Firefox and Google Chrome and they do seem a bit faster than IE. options(browser = function(x) shell(paste(start firefox, x))) ?help options(browser = function(x) shell(paste(%LocalAppData%\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe, x)))

Re: [Rd] recover and called from information

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I've put a fix for this in place in R-devel now. It required adding another parameter to browser(), so I'd like to test it out a while before backporting it to 2.10.0 patched. Please give it a try, and let me know if you notice anything wrong. Duncan Murdoch On 27/10/2009 12:51 PM, Romain

Re: [Rd] unable to compile RODBC (R 2.9.2, AIX)

2009-11-01 Thread Chuck White
I could compile RODBC on AIX 5.3/R-2.9.2. I set LDFLAGS to: export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64 -L/opt/freeware/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib Earlier, I had some other paths which had 32-bit libraries as well. Obviously, I re-compiled R and all the other libraries using this flag. Prof. Ripley and Marc,

Re: [Rd] parse_Rd and/or lazyload problem

2009-11-01 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
If of any help, I got a related error message in my browser (Firefox), from doing this: 1. In .Rprofile I set options(help.ports=6850) 2. I have one R HELP session running where I do help.start() so that I always have one session providing the help pages. This is to avoid having to redo