Dear Richard and Jeremy, I suspect this is coming from how assignments are handled, and may be hard to fix. I'll take a look.
Oddly, I can't duplicate this error when the commands are entered on a single line separated by semicolons; then I get the error message unexpected ';' in "withVisible( a <- 2;" both under Windows and Ubuntu (R 2.6.1, Rcmdr 2.3-10 in both OSes). Thanks for the information. I'll see what I can do. John -------------------------------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: January-04-08 11:58 AM > To: 'John Fox'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] bug Rcmdr > > John, > > It's worse than a semi-colon problem. It is an error in a self- > referential > statement 'a <- a+5'. Type those lines as three separate lines in the > Rcmdr > Script Window > and you still get the wrong answer. This is from 1.3-9. > > > a<-2 > > > a<-a+5 > > > a > [1] 12 > > Rich > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > project.org] On > Behalf Of John Fox > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 08:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] bug Rcmdr > > Dear Jeremy, > > As it says in ?Commander, the script window in the R Commander doesn't > provide a true console to R. One of the things it doesn't do is handle > lines > with multiple commands separated by semicolons. In fact, I wonder what > version of the Rcmdr package you're using, since (for me) in the latest > version on CRAN (1.3-10), lines with semi-colons produce an error. > > I'll take a look at this problem when I have a chance, and accommodate > semi-colons if I can do so reasonably. I don't think that it should be > too > hard. > > Regards, > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox, Professor > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 > 905-525-9140x23604 > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > project.org] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: January-04-08 6:14 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] bug Rcmdr > > > > Hello, > > > > If I run the script : "a<-2 ; a<-a+5 ; a" whith the "submit" buton > in > > Rcmdr the result is 12 !!! > > But if I run the script "a<-2 ; b<-a+5 ; b" there is no problem and > the > > result is 7. > > > > I think there is a bug in the function "onSubmit". > > > > Thanks, > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > > guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.