From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Sat Feb  1 23:11:02 2003
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Feb  1 23:11:02 2003
Subject: [Rd] Apparent parser problem (PR#2520)
Message-ID: <200302012211.XAA05679@pubhealth.ku.dk>

That does not happen here, using the precompiled binary rw1062.exe (which
BTW is supported: it is the 182 addon packages which are not).

You *did* do this in a new session with --vanilla, didn't you?


On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 jrogers@cantatapharm.com wrote:

> Let me first admit: I am experiencing this bug on a precompiled binary
> of R for windows, and I know these are not supported. I am not asking
> for support, but I thought the R developers would want to know about
> this. 
> 
> # Define:
> 
> foo.page <- function(x) x
> 
> # Then, 
> 
> foo.page("a")
> 
> # actually invokes the pager (!) on object named "a" (if one is
> defined). 
> # same thing happens if you define the function with the name
> <anyname>.page.
> 
> # Interestingly, 
> 
> foo.page("a" )
> 
> # will actually act as desired (returns "a")
> 
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    6.2            
> year     2003           
> month    01             
> day      10             
> language R    
> 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Jim Rogers
> 
> James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers@cantatapharm.com>
> Statistical Scientist
> Cantata Pharmaceuticals
> 3-G Gill St
> Woburn, MA  01801
> 617.225.9009
> Fax 617.225.9010
> 
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[Rd] Apparent parser problem (PR#2520)
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