[Rd] saving history through menu in R 2.4.0dev (PR#9168)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

Usual moan: you have submitted TWO bug reports (9168 and 9169) on an 
unreleased version of R (and not a current build). Just a report to 
R-windows would have been appropriate since this is about the Windows GUI.

The crucial piece of information is that (at least on my box), the error 
message says that '180806.*' cannot be opened.  The Windows dialog box has 
decided to add '.*' to your file name (since it has no extension).  Maybe 
we are using this wrong, but I can't see that in the MSDN documentation.

This is a side-effect of (see CHANGES):

  The menu items for source and load/save images and drag-and-drop can
  now be used for paths on network shares (starting with \\).

since the misnamed 'fixslash' used to remove the trailing '.*', without 
documenting why, and it can no longer be used if we allow network shares.

Fixed for r38953, or try using an extension on your file names as Windows 
seems to expect them.


On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, petr.pikal at precheza.cz wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> I encountered different behaviour of R 2.4.0dev from 2.3.1pat. I 
> usually save history through menu File-Save history and I use date 
> e.g. 180806 as a file name. Worked until I tried in R 2.4.0dev
> 
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32                                        
> arch           i386                                                   
> os             mingw32                                                
> system         i386, mingw32                                          
> status         Under development (unstable)                           
> major          2                                                     
> minor          4.0                                                   
> year           2006                                                  
> month          08                                                    
> day            02                                                     
> svn rev        38773                                                 
> language       R                                                      
>          
> version.string R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-
> 02 r38773)
> 
> Message window says
> 
> unable to open......
> 
> But it works if I try to use the file which already exists (with 
> warning about overwriting). So it seems to me as it is not able to 
> create a new file.
> 
> Bug or new feature?
> 
> BTW: platform Windows 2000
> Thank you
> 
> Petr Pikal
> 
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
> 
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