[ESS] one other question

Seth Falcon sethfalcon at gmail.com
Thu May 11 02:19:34 CEST 2006


"MARK LEEDS" <markleeds at verizon.net> writes:

> maybe this has to do with my utils error ( explained in the previous
> email ) but i put the 2 lines below in the file scratch.R ( which is
> saved ) in the upper window of my ESS session.
>
> x<-2 x
>
> then i click on the load file button and it says "load successful" but
> nothing happens in the R session ? Shouldn't x get printed ?  It gets
> printed when I mark the region and click on eval region ? The "eval
> line" button also works. It's just the "load file" button that seems
> to have a bug.

Try switching to the R buffer and check the value of x.  The default
for load file is to load it to the R session but _not_ echo it to the
R buffer.  So it is a feature :-)

The default for eval region, OTOH, is to echo to the R buffer.

HTH,

+ seth




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