[R] Error with 1.9.0 - winMenuAdd not usable in .Rprofile

[Fan]

Brian, thanks for the hint, it works.

The old 1.8 version works very well without the need of such
"manual" loading, I guess, there'd be some internal changes
in the order of libraries loading at the startup
in the 1.9.0 version ?

--
Fan

Brian.J.GREGOR at odot.state.or.us wrote:
> I had this problem too. The documentation for the winMenus says that these
> functions are part of the utils package. R must be loading this library
> after it sources in Rprofile. If you add library(utils) to the beginning of
> your .First function, it should take care of the problem.
> 
> Brian Gregor, P.E.
> Transportation Planning Analysis Unit
> Oregon Department of Transportation
> Brian.J.GREGOR at odot.state.or.us
> (503) 986-4120
>  
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Fan [mailto:xiao.gang.fan1 at libertysurf.fr]
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:06 PM
>>To: Duncan Murdoch
>>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>Subject: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - winMenuAdd not usable in .Rprofile
>>
>>
>>With the R 1.9.0 version (Windows patched binary), I've got a strange
>>behaviour: the function winMenuAdd is no longer usable in the start up
>>file .Rprofile, the following error message was given:
>>
>>Error in try(winMenuAdd("test")) : couldn't find function "winMenuAdd"
>>
>>but the function works fine in interactive, once R loaded.
>>
>>Any idea ?
>>Thanks
>>--
>>Fan
>>
>>Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:40:05 +0100 (BST), Prof Brian Ripley
>>><ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I think it would be more useful for debugging purposes to 
>>>>
>>do them one
>>
>>>>>at a time.  Do we still get an error message about 
>>>>
>>HOMEDRIVE if we do
>>
>>>>>the above?  What if we set only HOMEPATH?
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately you get the same message unless both are set 
>>>
>>correctly, so 
>>
>>>>setting just one on the command line will tell you nothing. 
>>>
>> I've changed 
>>
>>>>the message for R-patched so we can tell them apart.
>>>
>>>
>>>I've just uploaded builds of r-patched and r-devel to CRAN that
>>>incorporate this change.  They should be visible tomorrow at 
>>>
>>><http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base>
>>>
>>>Follow the links near the top of the page; the ones in the main part
>>>are for the unpatched 1.9.0 release.
>>>
>>>Duncan Murdoch
>>>
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