I have just begun to use a Mac after teaching R (with my students officially Windows users) for a while. It seems that the gui works differently from that on Windows. In particular, I quote from Simon on r-sig-mac
"this [q()] was never intended to work in the GUI because it entirely bypasses the app quitting mechanism. You should never use q/quit in the GUI unless you really mean to exit R right away and discard everything (history, all open files, ...)" Please can you point me to some documentation that explains this and any other similar traps for the unwary fairly knowledgeable R user. My audience are very naive Mac users, e.g. they cannot possibly find hidden files as they do not know what a terminal is. I would like to be able to help them but am struggling myself. e.g. They may know what the switch on the toolbar means, but I do not. I certainly would not guess that a button with a tooltip Quit R would not do the same as q(). I also maintain an R package in which I work very hard to make everything platform independent. Is the Mac a special case? It is hard to quit R without an option to save on either Linux or Windows. Other differences I have noted are 1) I cannot search in the help pages and 2) when I copy and paste from an example in a help page I have to do it line by line or I cannot adjust it line by line. Workarounds for either would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Ruth -- Ruth M. Ripley, Email:r...@stats.ox.ac.uk Dept. of Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/ University of Oxford, Tel: 01865 282851 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: 01865 272595 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
