[R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window

Gustaf Rydevik gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 10:07:22 CEST 2007


On 9/21/07, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <muenchen at utk.edu> wrote:
> Now I'm working in 2.5.1 on a home machine also running XP. It has the
> same problem, and I think I finally figured it out.
>
> I've noticed that if the cursor is directly over the text, it becomes an
> I-beam. When hovering over the blank space around the text, the cursor
> becomes an arrow. Selections via the arrow almost always paste properly
> into a script window. Copies made while selecting with the I-beam cursor
> almost always fail.
>
> Regardless of how the selection is done, a paste into Notepad never
> fails. Copying from Notepad to a script window never fails, regardless
> of how the paste into Notepad was selected.
>
> Very strange!
>
> Bob
>
> P.S. almost the testing has been with the ?data.frame and ?summary
> examples.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:59 PM
> > To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> > Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window
> >
> > On 20/09/2007 1:49 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
> > > Does this look like a bug? If so, is there a different way to report
> > it?
> >
> > It sounds like a bug, but I can't reproduce it.  You said it is
> > intermittent on your system.  Can you try to work out the conditions
> > that reliably trigger it?
> >
> > It might be something specific to your system; does anyone else see
> > this?
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
>

I notice the same thing, (R 2.5.0), except I can't get the example to
paste correctly at all-
The cursor never turns into I-beam.

/Gustaf



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