[R-SIG-Mac] function hint is missing in 2.13.0

[William Revelle]

Simon,

Robert is referring (I suspect) to those wonderful hints at the 
bottom of the console window that tell what the function parameters 
are.

Yes, hints work fine on most of my machines, but do not on an iMac 
running OS 10.5.8 that I recently installed in my lab.  (I am at home 
and can not do a sessionInfo on my lab machine right now.)

For me, the hints line flashes when R is first loading and then is 
never to be seen again.

This happens on the iMac for 2.13.0 as well as 2.14.0  and with RGui 
1.40 and 1.41  (this is from memory).

Bill



At 6:16 PM -0400 5/7/11, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>Can you, please, be more specific as of what you expect to see and 
>what you don't see? The hints work just fine for me. Also note that 
>the preference setting applies to the editor, not the console (which 
>shows hints at all times unless R is busy).
>
>Cheers,
>Simon
>
>
>On May 7, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Robert M Hirsch wrote:
>
>>  I downloaded R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13).  I am using
>>
>>  [R.app GUI 1.40 (5751) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>
>>  I do not get a function hint at the bottom of the console.  I looked at
>>  the preferences and see that function hint is checked.  Hope this can be
>>  fixed.  Thanks.
>>  ************************************************************
>>  * Robert M. Hirsch
>>  * Research Hydrologist
>>  * 432 National Center                     rhirsch at usgs.gov
>>  * U.S. Geological Survey                ph  703-648-5888
>  > * Reston, VA 20192                       fax 703-648-5832


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