Re: [R] postscript(), used from a pre R-2.6.0 workspace

2007-10-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
postscript() is supposed to read and write .PostScript.Options from a private environment, so one question is how .PostScript.Options got to be in the workspace: I suspect a much older version of R put it there, not least because it would seem to be using an encoding (and case) relevant to Clas

Re: [R] postscript(), used from a pre R-2.6.0 workspace

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
John Maindonald wrote: > I find that if start R-2.6.0 in a workspace with no .RData file, > load one of my workspaces from R-2.5.1 or earlier into R-2.6.0, > and then before doing anything else type postscript(file="z.ps"), > I get:: > > > ls() > character(0) > > load(url("http://www.maths.anu.ed

Re: [R] postscript(), used from a pre R-2.6.0 workspace

2007-10-30 Thread John Maindonald
I find that if start R-2.6.0 in a workspace with no .RData file, load one of my workspaces from R-2.5.1 or earlier into R-2.6.0, and then before doing anything else type postscript(file="z.ps"), I get:: > ls() character(0) > load(url("http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm/r/test5.RData";)) > posts