From jfox at mcmaster.ca  Tue Apr 11 23:19:33 2006
From: jfox at mcmaster.ca (John Fox)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:19:33 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows
In-Reply-To: <443C12F0.3070007@stats.uwo.ca>
Message-ID: <20060411211932.OYUM1543.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@JohnDesktop8300>

Dear Duncan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:35 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows
> 
> On 4/11/2006 4:02 PM, John Fox wrote:
> > Dear r-devel list members,
> > 
> > I find that adding --sdi to the Target field in the 
> short-cut for R is 
> > ineffective in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows (version/platform 
> details below).
> > Setting MDI = no in the Rconsole file works, however. 
> 
> Thanks, I'll fix that.
> 
> > It's probably a bit late to request this for version 2.3.0, but it 
> > would be nice to be able to select either the SDI or MDI in 
> the R Windows installer.
> 
> It's hard to make changes to the installer because of the 
> many translations of installer messages that are required.  
> I'd say it's now too late to ask the translators for a new 
> translation for 2.3.0.
> 

I'm not surprised. Perhaps this can be a feature request for the next
version.

I'm sorry that I didn't think of this earlier.

John

> Duncan
> > 
> > Regards,
> >  John
> > 
> > --------- snip ------------
> > 
> > Version:
> >  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> >  arch = i386
> >  os = mingw32
> >  system = i386, mingw32
> >  status = beta
> >  major = 2
> >  minor = 3.0
> >  year = 2006
> >  month = 04
> >  day = 09
> >  svn rev = 37687
> >  language = R
> >  version.string = Version 2.3.0 beta (2006-04-09 r37687)
> > 
> > Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0
> > 
> > Locale:
> > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> > 
> > Search Path:
> >  .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, 
> > package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads, 
> > package:base
> > 
> > --------------------------------
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> > McMaster University
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[Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows
John Fox