[Rd] expression paste broken in r-devel?

[Hiroyuki Kawakatsu]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 10/12/2009 6:21 AM, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The following expression() is silently ignored in r-devel (r50697):
>>
>> plot(1:10)
>> text(5, 5, expression(paste("foo ", alpha)))
>>
>> Am I the only one having this problem? example(plotmath) runs but all
>> constructs of the form expression(paste()) do not show up in the
>> plots.
>
> It's working for me in r50697 in Windows.  Please post sessionInfo, etc.

hmmm. this is not working for me both in freeBSD

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-12-10 r50698)
x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.0

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.11.0

and debian

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-12-10 r50697)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


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