Protocol question: formatting of posts
On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
Here's a random example of some code and the response R produced: --------
sum(2 ^ (which(as.logical(rev(nn))) - 1)) [1] 74
------- Now, maybe I'm old and crochety, but why don't people put a handy linefeed (or <CR>) between each command line and each response line? I just find it tedious to try to figure out exactly where a given command ended, especially when a couple commands in a row are left on a single line. If this is my own fault for reading the archive with Camino (and other browsers parse the archive web page text better), then I apologize for this interruption. Carl
That looks like a snippet from my reply earlier this week. Here is the post online: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-April/194676.html I reviewed the post with Safari, Firefox and then installed Camino 1.6.7 on OSX. Looks fine in all of them. I did copy from an R console when pasting the above, which did have the newline in the source. I might expect a problem with an e-mail client that may have problems displaying "format = flowed" e-mails which is the default in Apple Mail when sending plain text e-mails, but in a browser I am not sure if this should be an issue. The page source for the post in the archive shows a newline so it is not clear to me why you are having rendering issues. More info on 'format = flowed' is available here: http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html and the formal spec is here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt HTH, Marc Schwartz