Apparent parser problem (PR#2520)

You *did* do this in a new session with --vanilla, didn't you?
Almost. What I did was comment out all of the lines of my Rprofile, and
start with a new .Rdata (this should have the same effect as --vanilla,
right?). Doing that, I get the behavior I described, but...

I now see that I only get the problem when running R through iESS. If I
work directly with Rterm, or with Rgui, I don't get the problem. So, R
is not responsible (sorry!) and perhaps I should pursue this outside of
R-bugs. But may I ask if anyone can replicate my problem when working
through iESS?

Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 5:10 PM
To: Jim Rogers
Cc: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
Subject: Re: [Rd] Apparent parser problem (PR#2520)

That does not happen here, using the precompiled binary 
rw1062.exe (which BTW is supported: it is the 182 addon 
packages which are not).

You *did* do this in a new session with --vanilla, didn't you?

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 jrogers@cantatapharm.com wrote:

Let me first admit: I am experiencing this bug on a 
precompiled binary 
of R for windows, and I know these are not supported. I am 
not asking 
for support, but I thought the R developers would want to 
know about 
this.

# Define:

foo.page <- function(x) x

# Then,

foo.page("a")

# actually invokes the pager (!) on object named "a" (if one is 
defined). # same thing happens if you define the function with the 
name <anyname>.page.

# Interestingly,

foo.page("a" )

# will actually act as desired (returns "a")

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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    6.2            
year     2003           
month    01             
day      10             
language R    

Cheers,
Jim Rogers

James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers@cantatapharm.com>
Statistical Scientist
Cantata Pharmaceuticals
3-G Gill St
Woburn, MA  01801
617.225.9009
Fax 617.225.9010

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