[R-SIG-Mac] drag & drop on R icon not changing directory

[Simon Urbanek]

I suspect this is an unintended side effect of some performance improvement in r6244 - unfortunately no one seems to have noticed it in the beta phase. I don't have any strong opinions on this - I certainly want the directory to change for RData files, but I don't have any opinion on source files. Certainly, it did break the documented behavior since 2.15.1 because I happened to specifically write down the current behavior in the NEWS entry for 2.15.1 and it no longer behaves that way. I think it may be worth just reverting the changes since I suspect this was not intended (but Hans-Joerg would be the person to ask if this was intended).

Thanks,
Simon


On Nov 6, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Ken Knoblauch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just noticed this in R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-04 r61084),
> that dragging a file onto the R icon when starting a session is not
> changing to the directory of the file.
> 
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-04 r61084)
> 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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> best,
> 
> Ken
> 
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