Hello,

 

Two unrelated questions, and neither urgent.

 

Windows 7, R 3.0.1. Using R Console, no fancy interface.

 

The function help ultimately becomes lost to a session kept running for
extended periods (days). I.e. with a new session if you invoke the Help
menu 'R functions (txt)...' it activates the html help and goes to the
named function page. This will work fine for at least a day, but
typically the next day invoking the help menu in this fashion will fail,
as R looks for a temporary address it creates on your computer. This
gets lost, possibly due to network administration activity. So then I
save and start another session with same Rdata. Trivial enough but
irritating. Anybody know how to restore the 'link' without ending and
restarting the session?

 

I have a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit requirements, with 64 the default. I
became used to starting R sessions directly from the appropriate Rdata
workspaces. With the latest version I need to start from the generic
icon and then load the workspace if I want 32-bit. Anybody know a way to
make the Rdata files keep track of which bit version they work with, or
some trick that accomplishes the same objective? The 32-bit requirement
is usually just RODBC, and the need for it is scattered over lots of
workspaces. Again, trivial but a nuisance. A more pragmatic motive is to
not oblige users of applications to think about it. Any way to make a
session switch 'bits' with a source file?

 

Mark Fowler 
Population Ecology Division 
Bedford Inst of Oceanography 
Dept Fisheries & Oceans 
Dartmouth NS Canada 
B2Y 4A2 
Tel. (902) 426-3529 
Fax (902) 426-9710 
Email Mark.Fowler@dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:Mark.Fowler@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>  



 


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