[ESS] rdired stopped working

A.J. Rossini blindglobe at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 11:26:07 CET 2005


Try running it in a fresh/new workspace.  It appears to be a problem
with an R object.

On 11/8/05, Henning Redestig <redestig at mpimp-golm.mpg.de> wrote:
> I know its very weird, because it worked fine for me up until just
> recently. I have not changed any language settings, my linux is in
> german and so is my R. This has not (and should not I suppose?) caused
> any problems before.. I wouldnt assume this is a bug in ess-rdired but
> something thats gone wrong with my system. I just can not even speculate
> on what that might be... I found rdired a very nice interface to
> managing the R workspace and dont know of any alternative for this task.
>
> Thanks alot,
>
> Henning
>
> Stephen Eglen wrote:
> >  > when I do ess-rdired I get:
> >  >
> >  > Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : Parsing error
> > umm.  I just tested it (although I wrote it, I don't use it often) and
> > it seems fine here.
> >
> >  > until recently rdired worked just fine for me so I am
> >  > having a very hard time understanding how this could have happened. I
> >  > havent made any changes recently to my system. I upgraded ESS to
> >  > 5.2.10 but that did not solve the problem. Also a problem that arose
> >  > about the same, making me thinking they are related, is that when I do
> >  > ess-load-file it doesnt load as usually but prints out some seemingly
> >  > random snippet of the file, e.g. this what it could look like in my
> >  > R-buffer when I try to load a file with 297 lines:
> >
> > Ummm; this is really odd.  The only thing I can think of is that in
> > your email, there were lots of control chars (\200 \230 \231).  Have
> > you recently changed any language settings?
> >
> > sorry I can't help more!
> >
> > stephen
> >
>
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best,
-tony

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