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

[David Winsemius]

On May 7, 2011, at 7:35 PM, William Revelle wrote:

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

The ones that used to change each time you type "(".
>
> 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).

It's also happening as described by Bill on an OSX 10.5.8 machine with  
R version 2.13.0 beta (2011-04-04 r55296) running with the R64 GUI  
that came as a bundle from the att.research site. I figured I had  
forgotten how to set an option. I just tried with the 32 bit GUI and  
get the same lack of earlier behavior (.... display of argument list  
at bottom of GUI window when function name is followed by "(". at the  
command line) . And tried with the terminal version and it doesn't  
have the grey border so there would have been no place to display that  
information.

-- 
David.

>
> 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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David Winsemius, MD
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