From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Oct 11 08:34:24 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon Oct 11 08:34:33 2004
Subject: (PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing "lines"
	GUI setting (PR#7277)
In-Reply-To: <20041011014223.7A2DFEDDF@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410110721270.30371-100000@gannet.stats>

Doesn't happen for me (on two rather different machines under Windows XP
SP2).  This looks like a Windows GDI refresh problem.  Does editing the
Rconsole file work?  If so, that is a usable workaround. Does minimizing
and restoring the windows show the correct contents?

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 duncan.mackay@flinders.edu.au wrote:

> Full_Name: Duncan Mackay
> Version: 2.0.0
> OS: WinXP
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.96.120.254)
> 
> 
> > version
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    2              
> minor    0.0            
> year     2004           
> month    10             
> day      04             
> language R       
> 
> I am running the above version of R under WinXP Service Pack 2.
> 
> I have encountered some strange behaviour after changing the "lines" setting in
> the GUI preferences, as follows:-
> 
> "Select Edit/GUI preferences..."
> Change the "lines" setting from 8000 to 16000
> Click "Apply" then "OK"
> Back at the R console, type ?merge
> 
> The "R Help on 'merge'" window appears but is blank???????
> 
> Click back in the R Console window. Now it goes blank ???????????
> 
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(PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing "lines" GUI setting (PR#7277)
Prof Brian Ripley