[R] old weird error message

Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name
Wed Jul 25 15:59:15 CEST 2012


see head(`?`, 20)

there is another funny thing: Sys.sleep(2 + rpois(1, 2))  (in theory R
can, although is unlikely to, sleep forever since it is a Poisson
distribution...)

Regards,
Yihui
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Ivan Calandra
<ivan.calandra at u-bourgogne.fr> wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I have a weird questions. A friend of mine, some years ago, supposedly
> trying to access help files without Internet connection, got something like
> this error message:
>
> "The Pythia is not available, please go to Delphi"
>
> When I've heard about it, I found it very funny and I'd like to be able to
> get it. Does anyone of you know how to get this error message again?
>
> Since it's an old story, no sessionInfo possible.
>
> Thanks in advance for this uncritical question!
> Ivan
>
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