[R-SIG-Mac] Function argument display on GUI console border

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:54 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> The display of function arguments along the lower border of the Console window now seems very erratic. If I now type
> 
> duplicated(
> 
> ... I was expecting to see the usage argument list along the lower border.

You should see

duplcated(x, incomparables = FALSE, ...)

in the bottom bar - at least that's what I get.


> Am I the only one who has seen this feature become less predictably available?
> 

You'll have to be more precise as of what you see .... Since the console essentially just evaluates capture.output(print(args(...))), you can obviously break it by any R code that changes the behavior of the pieces involved. But then I don't know why anyone would to that ... ;)

Cheers,
Simon


> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-13 r57650)
> 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] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [8] base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] latticeExtra_0.6-19 RColorBrewer_1.0-5  Matrix_1.0-1
> [4] rms_3.3-2           Hmisc_3.9-0         timereg_1.6-0
> [7] survival_2.36-10    sos_1.3-1           brew_1.0-6
> [10] lattice_0.20-0
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.14.1 grid_2.14.0    tools_2.14.0
> 
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
> 
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