"defadvice" solved, new problem with help

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Mon Apr 29 01:47:44 CEST 2002


> From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com]
> 
> Now I have a new problem:  When I type ?<anything> at the R 
> prompt under
> iESS, the help page doesn't show up.  Instead, I get a message in the
> mini-buffer that says "ESS process not ready.  Finish your 
> command before
> trying again".  Typing help("plot") gives the same thing.  
> Can anyone help?

I sort of found the culprit, but have no idea how or why it happened.

I have the following lines in my .Rprofile:

##.h <- taskCallbackManager()
##invisible(.h$add(function(expr, value, ok, visible) {
##  options(prompt=paste(getwd(),":",substring(date(),12,19), "> ",
sep=""));
##  return(TRUE)},
##       name="dateprompt"))

which, when uncommented, gives me the current working directory as well as
the time at the R prompt.  This seems to be what's causing my problem with
help under ESS.  When commented out, the problem dissappears.

Anyone have ideas how to fix this?  TIA!!

Cheers,
Andy


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