[R] Re: RWinEdt, R.profile and version 1.9.0

[Uwe Ligges]

Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> Apologises to reply to myself...
> 
> I found where the trouble came from.
> 
> The function winMenuAdd() is included in the library utils, not loaded at this stage. Now, it works with
> 
> library(MASS)
> library(lattice)
> cat("Load editor?(y/n default = y): ")
> nf <- as.character(readLines(n = 1))
> if (any(nf=="y",nf=="Y",nf=="")) {library(utils);library(RWinEdt)}
> rm(nf)
> 
> This loading was not necessary in the version 1.8.1.

I'll update RWinEdt so that it carefully loads "utils". Thanks for the 
report.

Uwe Ligges



> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Patrick Giraudoux" <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr>
> To: "r-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 1:39 PM
> Subject: RWinEdt, R.profile and version 1.9.0
> 
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have just upgraded from the 1.8.1 to  the 1.9.0 version of R, and have some trouble to run RWinEdt from the .Rprofile file (in
> 
> the
> 
>>user folder). The script is:
>>
>>library(MASS)
>>library(lattice)
>>cat("Load editor?(y/n default = y): ")
>>nf <- as.character(readLines(n = 1))
>>if ((nf=="y")|(nf=="Y")|(nf=="")) {library(RWinEdt)}
>>rm(nf)
>>
>>When run at start, this prompts:
>>
>>Loading required package: stats
>>Load editor?(y/n default = y): y
>>Loading required package: SWinRegistry
>>Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : couldn't find function "winMenuAdd"
>>
>>and the WinEdt is not started.
>>
>>However, if I run
>>
>>
>>>library(RWinEdt)
>>
>>from the gui.exe interface, everything goes well.
>>
>>How can I manage with this "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : couldn't find function "winMenuAdd" generated by a call to
>>library(RWinEdt) in the .Rprofile script?
>>
>>Patrick Giraudoux
>>
> 
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