[Rd] Apparent parser problem (PR#2520)

[jrogers@cantatapharm.com]

> You *did* do this in a new session with --vanilla, didn't you?

Almost. What I did was comment out all of the lines of my Rprofile, and
start with a new .Rdata (this should have the same effect as --vanilla,
right?). Doing that, I get the behavior I described, but...

I now see that I only get the problem when running R through iESS. If I
work directly with Rterm, or with Rgui, I don't get the problem. So, R
is not responsible (sorry!) and perhaps I should pursue this outside of
R-bugs. But may I ask if anyone can replicate my problem when working
through iESS?

Jim  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 5:10 PM
> To: Jim Rogers
> Cc: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Apparent parser problem (PR#2520)
> 
> 
> That does not happen here, using the precompiled binary 
> rw1062.exe (which BTW is supported: it is the 182 addon 
> packages which are not).
> 
> You *did* do this in a new session with --vanilla, didn't you?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 jrogers@cantatapharm.com wrote:
> 
> > Let me first admit: I am experiencing this bug on a 
> precompiled binary 
> > of R for windows, and I know these are not supported. I am 
> not asking 
> > for support, but I thought the R developers would want to 
> know about 
> > this.
> > 
> > # Define:
> > 
> > foo.page <- function(x) x
> > 
> > # Then,
> > 
> > foo.page("a")
> > 
> > # actually invokes the pager (!) on object named "a" (if one is 
> > defined). # same thing happens if you define the function with the 
> > name <anyname>.page.
> > 
> > # Interestingly,
> > 
> > foo.page("a" )
> > 
> > # will actually act as desired (returns "a")
> > 
> >          _              
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386           
> > os       mingw32        
> > system   i386, mingw32  
> > status                  
> > major    1              
> > minor    6.2            
> > year     2003           
> > month    01             
> > day      10             
> > language R    
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jim Rogers
> > 
> > James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers@cantatapharm.com>
> > Statistical Scientist
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