From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Tue Apr 11 22:34:56 2006
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:34:56 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows
In-Reply-To: <20060411200221.HOBR20622.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@JohnDesktop8300>
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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.

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
> 
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> 
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[Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows
Duncan Murdoch