Rcmdr problems (was:Re: [R] Minor nuisance with rw1071)

[kjetil brinchmann halvorsen]

On 18 Jul 2003 at 9:54, John Fox wrote:

Sorry for being so late coming back on this, I was travelling the 
weekend. I tried to remove as much as possible from the workspace 
(.RData file), but nothing created by Rcmdr. This did'nt change 
anything. 

Then I downloaded the latest Rcmdr (0.9-0, development version) from 
John Fox page, and compiled it myself for windows. The focus problem 
is unchanged, but now the problems with attaching a dataset has gone, 
the warnings about _ being deprecated has gone, happily. 

Also, the problem with printing the .logFont variable seems to have 
gone. In all but one trials it did'nt bomb Rgui.

Kjetil

> Dear Brian,
> 
> At 08:32 AM 7/18/2003 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >I believe it's a side effect of starting up tcltk.  That grabs focus for
> >its invisible window: there's a kludgy workaround in the tcltk startup
> >code, but that it looks like that is not working during the startup
> >(which here seems to be something in .RData).
> 
> That there's something in .RData causing the problem is a good guess. To 
> provide a bit more context: Kjetil reports to me that he's unable to use 
> the Rcmdr GUI without generating "Warning: The use of _ is soon to be 
> removed: you will be warned repeatedly" and parse errors. Of course, I 
> don't use underscores in any of my code.
> 
> The only other similar report that I received was from Martin Maechler 
> using Rcmdr under Emacs/ESS on a Linux machine. That problem went away when 
> he ran R from a terminal rather than from Emacs, but perhaps that was 
> coincidence. (Rcmdr works for me under XEmacs/ESS under Windows, though 
> it's not a natural marriage.)
> 
> As a more general matter, I've encountered but been able to work around a 
> variety of focus problems using the tcltk package.
> 
> Regards,
>   John
> 
> 
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> McMaster University
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