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forward slash vs double backslash R and Tinn-R

4 messages · Farrel Buchinsky, Duncan Murdoch, Keith Jewell

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Farrel Buchinsky
# 
I installed the newest version of R and once again ran into problem
with Tinn-R failing when trying to use the R explorer. I had this
problem once before and solved it when I added the following

.trPaths = c(
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/',
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/search.txt',
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/objects.txt',
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/file.r',
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/selection.r',
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/block.r',
'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/lines.r')

The posted configuration file tries to accomplish this situation with
.trPaths <- paste(paste(Sys.getenv('APPDATA'), '\\Tinn-R\\tmp\\',
sep=''), c('', 'search.txt', 'objects.txt', 'file.r', 'selection.r',
'block.r', 'lines.r'), sep='')

BUT IT FAILS.


Farrel Buchinsky
Farrel Buchinsky
# 
The only apparent reason for the failure is that the elegant line
using Sys.getenv denerates filenames with double backslashes instead
of forward slashes. I am working in Windows XP and I thought that R
could use double backslashes or a single forward slash.

So what am I not understanding about the whole slash thing?


Farrel Buchinsky
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:10, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
#
On 1/23/2009 11:10 AM, Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
I think you want to be sending this to the Tinn-R maintainers, possibly 
with a patch to give something that works.  Reporting it on R-help may 
be useful for someone else hit with the same problem who looks it up 
here, but it won't be likely to get it fixed.

Duncan Murdoch
Keith Jewell
# 
I'm on Windows XP and it works fine for me, so the "only apparent reason for 
the failure" may not be the real reason.
"BUT IT FAILS" isn't very explicit.

If your .trPaths definition works for you, why not use it?

As Duncan Murdoch said, you're really asking in the wrong place. There's a 
forum somewhere dedicated to Tinn-R. Try looking here 
http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/ initially.

HTH

KJ

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