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Next release of R, August 31st

5 messages · Peter Dalgaard, Kjetil Halvorsen, Brian Ripley

Peter Dalgaard
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I'm trying to make a habit of announcing upcoming releases on r-devel,
to give package maintainers a chance of staying in sync, and to
encourage everyone to report bugs in the prerelease versions.

So: R-1.3.1 is scheduled for release on August 31st. In order to be
able to get a solid round of testing on different platforms,
maintainers of the group of recommended packages are requested to
respect a feature freeze starting on August 24th. This means that only
critical bugfixes should go into these packages. The list of
recommended packages are (hope I didn't forget any...)

  KernSmooth
  VR
  boot
  cluster
  foreign
  nlme
  rpart
  survival
  mgcv
2 days later
Kjetil Halvorsen
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Hola!

A problem I have had for some versions now: When using R html help,
different browsers are started on different machines. On one machine, it
starts the opera browser, where html search not functions. On my home
machine (with a new version of win98), it insists on starting M$
internet
explorer, even though netscape is defined as default (when cliking on
the relevant help files in "explorador de windows", netscape opens). On
still
another machine, we have two different versions of netscape installed
(4.7 and 6.?, ?), and R insist on using the old version. Would
there be a good idea to define browser as an option(), so the exact
location of the .exe can be defined?

Thanks, Kjetil.
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Brian Ripley
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
(Should do if Java support is installed: did when I tested.)

On my home

            

      
      
      
    

        
No. It's done by the OS facilities, and launches whichever browser is set
via the file associations (that is if you double-click on a .html file).
There is no way to do this via .exe's (which is why Unix R is tied to
Netscape 4.x).

This works here correctly for IE or Netscape on lots of different
machines.  You need to get your file associations sorted out.  Sorry, but
it is a Windows issue: we just use the official calls.

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Kjetil Halvorsen
    

    

      
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I´ll try again

            

      
      
      
    

        
On that macvhine, the file associations is set to netscape, and all
other ways to open a browser opens netscape, but R insists on
opening M$ internet explorer.

Kjetil.
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
R knows absolutely nothing about this `M$ internet explorer'. It calls
the Windows API call ShellExecute(). Looks like your machine has a corrupt
Registry.

As I said before, R calls the official Windows API call and what happens
then is not our responsibility.