[R-SIG-Mac]Re: R 1.2.3

[G. Sawitzki]

Stefano,
  thank you for your reply. And thank you for all the work you ared doing.


At 00:22 +0200 27.08.01, Stefano Iacus wrote:
>Thank you Guenter,
>
>I'm almost finished with porting R to the MPW shell. This will be 
>functioning for release 1.4 of R.

great. so we can use scripting facilities etc. within the Mac environment.

>
>>- 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 ?

9.2



>
>>- 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 remember. This was already a topic in Vienna. I think this is due 
to some very  old code in S which is used here.
It would be nice if we could get someone to think how the graphics 
could be ported to a Quartz model for the MacX version.


>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.

Very good and very helpful.