[R] R studio Problem

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Amelia Marsh via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>>>>>     on Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:05:44 +0000 writes:

    > Sorry Mr Gunter. I didn't realize it.
    > Regards

    > Amelia

In this case, however, it was only the 'Subject' of Amelia's
posting and her own "feeling about" the problem which were
wrong:

As K. Elo's helpful reply suggests, it most probably 
is indeed an *R* problem, not an RStudio one:

Excursion (HW, do listen!):  A very efficient and easy way to _search_
 all the R mailing lists @R-project.org, i.e., including
 R-help (and R-devel, R-packages, R-package-devel, R-SIG-Mac, ...) is
by knowing/noticing that

  a) the website of all these lists are
    at  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/<lower-case-listname>
    and (consequently) all the list __archives__ are at
      https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/<lower-case-listname>

  b) the (somewhat) advanced, but not known well enough,
     Google search feature  'site:<domain>' 

In this case (because it has been on R-help in the past),
consequently a very efficient search to solve this problem is to
enter this into Google
 site:stat.ethz.ch normalizePath McAfee
 ~~~~~
(or click here to "learn it":
 https://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Astat.ethz.ch+normalizePath+McAfee)

which finds this as a first hit  
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-September/252217.html
which used to be the solution of the problem (and K.Elo's URL was to the
infamous Nabble version of R-help).

-------

It is very said to notice that more and more users of R (and
Rtudio) and it seems even *instructors* are thinking they use
RStudio when they are primarily using R via RStudio... and their
credits are going to RStudio only instead of to R, the R
foundation and its not-unimportant subset, the R core team,
plus the 1000s of package authors and bug report / patches
contributing volunteers around the world.

--> Please spread the word: It is __R__ (and RStudio),  not the
    other way around.




    > On Thursday, 15 December 2016 12:39 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
    > You may get a reply here, but this is the wrong place for you to post.
    > RStudio is a separate commercial entity and product from the
    > noncommercial R foundation and R software that runs this list. This
    > list is about R programming; for questions about RStudio, you should
    > consult the RStudio website and post to their support lists.

    > Cheers,
    > Bert


    > Bert Gunter

    > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
    > and sticking things into it."
    > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )



    > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Amelia Marsh via R-help
    > <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
    >> Hi
    >> 
    >> I had installed R studio Desktop 1.0.44. However whenever I wanted to write any command, before I could complete, I was getting following error
    >> 
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >> 
    >> 
    >> I had uninstalled RStudio and again downloaded it and reinstalled. But still I am getting error like as mentioned below -
    >> 
    >> 
    >>> a = 40
    >> 
    >>> b = 45
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >>> c = 120
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >> Error in normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE) :
    >> unused argument(s) (winslash = "/", mustWork = TRUE)
    >> 
    >> 
    >> I had assigned value 40 to a, value 45 to b, but when I tried to assign value 120 to c, before I could complete, it started throwing above messages. I tried rnorm etc, however the error keeps on reappearing.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Can someone guide me.
    >> 
    >> Regards
    >> 
    >> Amelais
    >> 
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