Message-ID: <20150904070929.6aa1327a@Draco.site>
Date: 2015-09-04T14:09:29Z
From: John
Subject: Unable to run RcmdrPlugin.survival using 3.2.2 with Windows 10
In-Reply-To: <B7588D35DAE94C89A2D783C46E699A15@Zeus>
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:07:19 +1000
"Joyaa Antares" <joyaa at goldcoastosteopathy.com.au> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> Very many thanks. Your hypothesis was completely correct - I did
> save the workspace, and this is what created the problem. As a
> newbie, being part way through an "exercise", saving my workspace
> intuitively seemed the right thing to do. Clearly not! So now,
> before I closed R and Rcmdr, I copied and pasted from Rcmdr's script
> file into a MS Word document, added a few comments (with preceding
> #), and then closed without otherwise saving R's script, output,
> workspace or markdown. I hope this is reasonable practice. If not, I
> would be grateful for guidance on this.
>
> Once again, very many thanks. Joyaa
>
A potentially useful piece of advise is to avoid using MSWord as a text
editor. I don't use Rcmdr, but text files, particularly CSVs are
extremely useful in R as data files. Scripts should be pure text as
well. Word demands that you keep this in mind at all times. It won't
default to a simple text mode. You can use notepad, which MS provides
as a stopgap, though I would recommend a more capable programmer's text
editor such as Notepad++, a very useful GPL-licensed text editor for
Windows, which can be downloaded for free.
JWDougherty