R questions

A.J. Rossini rossini at blindglobe.net
Fri Jan 5 23:15:08 CET 2001


(redirected to ess-help, for others input).

>>>>> "RH" == Rich Heiberger <rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu> writes:


    RH> I just downloaded R 1020 and tried it on windows 2000.  it
    RH> seems to work!  Questions: perhaps one of you knows the answer
    RH> so I can avoid investigating.  the help files are not
    RH> correctly identified as having DOS line endings.  Instead they
    RH> come up in the unix coding system and the ^M characters are
    RH> all visible.  Since emacs is supposed to detect line endings,
    RH> I assume ESS is doing something wrong.

    RH> Hints: ?date and help(date) give an error.  I traced it:

    RH> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument processp nil)
    RH> process-mark(nil) shell-strip-ctrl-m("")
    RH> run-hook-with-args(shell-strip-ctrl-m "") comint-send-input()
    RH> inferior-ess-send-input()
    RH> call-interactively(inferior-ess-send-input)

I'll work on that this evening.

    RH> C-c C-v doesn't give an error, but it still comes up with the
    RH> wrong line endings.

    RH> The help system seems very slow.  Should it?

This is why I forwarded to ess-help -- any experiences here?

Also, any problems with object completion (being painfully slow) under
R?

best,
-tony

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