I did not closely follow the Mac SIG, but I will look into it now.  Thanks
for pointing it out.
Mike

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:16 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

> 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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