[Rd] (PR#11291) View functionhas problems going beyond 65536 rows *using the scrollbar*

[jholtman at gmail.com]

THanks for the response.  Sorry about the misleading subject line, but
I did say in the description that it only appears to happen with the
scroll bar and can understand if it is a limitation of Windows.
Probably left over from the days when Excel could only go to 65536
rows.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> This is specific to the scrollbar: paging/End work fine -- so the original
> subject list was seriously misleading.
>
> It is a Windows limitation on scrollbars -- there was code to work around
> it, but it was not switched on  - will be in R-devel and R-patched shortly.
>
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, jholtman at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Full_Name: jim holtman
> > Version: 2.7.0
> > OS: Winfows XP
> > Submission from: (NULL) (75.186.87.163)
> >
> >
> > I am using the "View" function to look at a data frame.  If the data has
> more
> > than 65535 rows in it, strange things happen.  You can reproduce the
> problem
> > with the following:
> >
> > x <- 1:66000
> > View(x)
> >
> > If you now take the scroll bar and move it to the end, you will see that
> the row
> > number is now 464 and the bar has jumped back to that location.
> >
> > Now press the "End" and you will get to the end of the vector and the row
> number
> > does show up as 66000.  It appears there is some trucation happen when the
> value
> > gets to be more than 65535 rows when using the scroll bar.  You can move
> the
> > scroll bar to about 65000 and the "Page Down" will move the data to the
> last row
> > (66000).
> >
> > This problem only seems to happen when using the scroll bar to move within
> the
> > data.
> >
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