[R-SIG-Mac]fix() recovery

[Stefano Iacus]

you should use newf <- edit(newf)

or again fix(newf)

I hope this helps you.

On the contrary I discovered a bug with the edit window I'm about to fix.
This is linked to the displaying of help files.

If you have an object that somewhere contains a "_", the edit window 
will remove it.

Stefano


On Giovedì, ottobre 11, 2001, at 09:06 , Peter Macdonald wrote:

> If I edit a function in fix() and the function has a syntax error, I am
> unable to recover the edit file on Macintosh the way I do on other
> platforms. This is what I get:
>
>> fix(newf)
> Error in edit(name, file, editor) : An error occurred on line 5
>  use a command like
>  x <- edit()
>  to recover
>> newf <- edit()
> Error in edit(name, file, editor) : unable to open file to read
>
> Here, edit() opens an empty window instead of a window with the code 
> from
> the previous fix().
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
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