[R] Suprising behavior of paste or cat?

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Feb 11 17:38:50 CET 2010


On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Russell Pierce wrote:

> If the list would provide additional reports I'd appreciate it.  I
> replicated the effect this morning on another Windows XP machine...

Worked as expected on a Mac OSX 10.5.8, R 2.10.1, [R.app GUI 1.30  
(5534) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]

-- 
David.
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
> ...
> and I replicated it using the current development build...
>
> R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-02-09 r51113)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> In additionally I've determined that when h.long = 150; both cat and
> write fail, but when h.long = 100 only the file write with cat fails.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Best,
>
> Russell
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT



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