[R-SIG-Mac]Re: R 1.2.3

Stefano Iacus jago@mclink.it
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:22:36 +0200


Thank you Guenter,

I'm almost finished with porting R to the MPW shell. This will be 
functioning for release 1.4 of R.

On Venerd́, agosto 24, 2001, at 09:59 , G. Sawitzki wrote:

> Stefano,
> I am trying 1.2.3. Congratulations.
>
1.3.0, of course :)


> - saved Workspace files do not have the creator set. So e.g. 
> double-clicking a Workspace does not launch R.
>
umh, thank you I'll fix this.

> - the file open dialog for running examples has a stray text "Redo 
> Paste" appearing above the "New" button.
>
This is strange, on which system are you testing it ?

> - after running an example, the "Help" menu entries stay disabled. 
> Using a different menu and then coming back to "Help" sometimes helps.
>
thanks, fixed now.

> - Text in graphics has much improved, but theree are still some 
> positioning glitches in vertical labels. See the example for lm().
>
yes I'm still in trouble with this part of code.

> - I've spent a long time to identify a problem when R reported "Cannot 
> allocate vector of size 6xxxx".

I'm sorry about that, I tought I had documented this. I'll include a 
note.

Under OSX this problem does not occour.

 From 1.3.1 R will be partially scriptable via Apple Events. It is 
working but I didn't finished the code yet.

Stefano