[R] Minor nuisance with rw1071

[kjetil brinchmann halvorsen]

On 17 Jul 2003 at 20:59, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Can we check whether you are each running R in MDI or SDI mode (not that
> I have a problem with either, but then I use focus-follows-mouse)?

I am running in MDI mode. Switching to SDI, problem disappears. 

But happens only with one of my many R startup icons, not with the 
others! It happens when starting in a directory where I experimented 
with the package Rcmdr by John Fox, and I guess that must have to do 
with the problem. First, the startup message now includes
Loading required package: foreign 
Loading required package: mva 
Loading required package: ctest 
Loading required package: tcltk 
Loading required package: car 
Loading required package: lattice 
Loading required package: grid 
Loading required package: nls 

loading extra packages compared with factory-fresh standard, 
including car. I did'nt change any startup files, so this must have 
been set by Rcmdr, but I don't know where. 

The value of options("defaultPackages") have not been changed. 

When typing ls(all=TRUE) I get a lot of variables names starting with 
. , most of them must have been defined by Rcmdr, but none seems
to contain package name info. I have none .Last() or .First() 
function anywhere. 

Incidentally, one of the variables defined by Rcmdr, .logFont, if I 
try to print its value, Rgui bombs, repeatedly!

This is all the info I have been able to find.
I have no .Renviron file, anywhere.
The only changes i made to .Rprofile was to get html help, and 
redefing the default editor. 

Kjetil Halvorsen

> 
> Duncan M has been removing show(RConsole) calls and it is quite possible 
> that this is the cause, but we do need to be able to reproduce the 
> problem.
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> 
> > This doesn't happen with me.  When I startup the focus is on the 
> > console.  I'm running
> > 
> >  > version
> >          _             
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386          
> > os       mingw32       
> > system   i386, mingw32 
> > status                 
> > major    1             
> > minor    7.1           
> > year     2003          
> > month    06            
> > day      16            
> > language R             
> >  >
> > 
> > on Windows XP Home.  Maybe you have something else running in the 
> > background?
> > 
> > -roger
> > 
> > kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> > 
> > >Hola!
> > >
> > >Starting with rw1071, just after starting Rgui the scope is not with 
> > >Rconsole, but some other place. This means I have to do a mouse click 
> > >in the Rconsole before starting to write the first command. Since I 
> > >always forget this, I end up writing the first command twice. 
> > >
> > >This is of course only a minor nuisance, but why is focus no longer 
> > >set to Rconsole window when start-up?
> > >
> > >This is on windows XP. 
> > >(pre-compiled binary from CRAN)
> > >
> > >Kjetil Halvorsen
> > >
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