[R] the word "rand" comes up in console after typing a command

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Fri Feb 1 05:16:09 CET 2013


Better would have been to have been  following the Mac SIG mailing  
list. Had you been reading that list you would have known that this  
was investigated and fixed in the most recent release of the Mac GUI.

-- 
David.


On Jan 31, 2013, at 9:49 PM, C W wrote:

> Hi list,
> I keep on getting this "rand" word come up on my console.  It shows up
> maybe one out 20 times I type in R console.  I don't understand why  
> it is
> coming up?
>> mean(variables)
> [1] -0.41
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand> mean(variables)
>
>> rm(list=ls())
>
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand
> rand>
>
> This is my session info.
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mike
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA



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