[R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window

[Bartjoosen]

Same problem here, it never works

Sys.info()
                      sysname                       release 
                    "Windows"                      "NT 5.1" 
                      version                      nodename 
"(build 2600) Service Pack 2"                  "PCWXPUPLC1" 
                      machine                         login 
                        "x86" 

version
               _                           
platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
arch           i386                        
os             mingw32                     
system         i386, mingw32               
status                                     
major          2                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2007                        
month          06                          
day            27                          
svn rev        42083                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)


Bart

Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
> 
> 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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