From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Jan  9 17:30:32 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed,  9 Jan 2008 17:30:32 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] Change Dir issue in Vista (PR#10561)
Message-ID: <20080109163032.74F662834615@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>

Oh please do try not to annoy those who give you the free gift of R!

1) This is a repeat of two previous bug reports: look in the Windows-fixed 
section on the bug repository.

2) It is documented in R 2.6.1: see ?choose.dir.

3) It has already been worked around in R-patched and R-devel.

Reporting already fixed bugs is really annoying, and specifically warned 
against in the FAQ.  Especially since the root of the bug is a broken 
Windows Vista system call, and not our fault.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, fannin.14 at fisher.osu.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Paul Fannin
> Version: 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
> OS: Windows Vista Enterprise
> Submission from: (NULL) (164.107.68.250)
>
>
> When going to File>Change Dir... and clicking the Browse button, you are only
> permitted to go into directories on the desktop.  I tested versions 2.2.0 to
> 2.51, and they will all allow you to navigate essentially any directory with the
> Browse button.

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[Rd] Change Dir issue in Vista (PR#10561)
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