[R] Tinn-R not working well with latest R

[John C Frain]

Pending the solution of the problem I use tinn-R as follows.

1) I make none of the recommended additions to the Rprofile.site file
2) I start tinn-R from the desktop and then load an r-file from my
working directory.
3) I then start R from the  R| start preferred Rgui | menu in Tinn-R.
This has the effect of starting R in the work directory and any saved
data there will be loaded automatically.

I may be missing some functionality but I like the way it works.  As
far as I can see this is not documented.

I do occasionally have a problem which i can not replicate at will but
which occurs occasionally.  If I have the cursor in the middle of a
line containing an R command any attempt to insert some thing i=at the
cursor is inserted one character per line above the line that I am
amending.  For example If I try to change

x -> a + b + c+ d + e to
x -> a +  b123 + c + d + e

Tinn-R displays

1
2
3
x -> a +  b + c + d + e

with the cursor staying after the b

To recover close Tinn-R and restart and the problem vanishes.  Any suggestions

Best Regards

John


On 11/02/2008, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed R 2.6.2 and am getting errors on startup that relate to
> svIDE being loaded by Tinn-R.
>
>
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Warning messages:
> 1: '\A' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
> 2: unrecognized escape removed from ";for Options\AutoIndent: 0=Off,
> 1=follow language scoping and 2=copy from previous line\n"
> 3: In grep(paste("[{]TclEval ", topic, "[}]", sep = ""), tclvalue(.Tcl("dde
> services TclEval {}")), :
> argument 'useBytes = TRUE' will be ignored
> Loading required package: svMisc
> Loading required package: R2HTML
>
>
> Any idea what is going on.
> I use R 2.6.2 on windows xp
>
> I also started R without the profile that Tinn-R made.
> If I manualy enter library(svIDE) then I get.
> > library(svIDE)
> Warning messages:
> 1: '\A' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
> 2: unrecognized escape removed from ";for Options\AutoIndent: 0=Off,
> 1=follow language scoping and 2=copy from previous line\n"
>
> So the underlying problem may be svIDE
> see: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/04/15738.html
>
> Apparently, because of this error, several great features in Tinn-R are not
> working properly.
> Any solutions or workarounds?
>
>
> --
> Farrel
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