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function hint is missing in 2.13.0

6 messages · Robert M Hirsch, Simon Urbanek, William Revelle +2 more

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Can you, please, be more specific as of what you expect to see and what you don't see? The hints work just fine for me. Also note that the preference setting applies to the editor, not the console (which shows hints at all times unless R is busy).

Cheers,
Simon
On May 7, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Robert M Hirsch wrote:

            
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Simon,

Robert is referring (I suspect) to those wonderful hints at the 
bottom of the console window that tell what the function parameters 
are.

Yes, hints work fine on most of my machines, but do not on an iMac 
running OS 10.5.8 that I recently installed in my lab.  (I am at home 
and can not do a sessionInfo on my lab machine right now.)

For me, the hints line flashes when R is first loading and then is 
never to be seen again.

This happens on the iMac for 2.13.0 as well as 2.14.0  and with RGui 
1.40 and 1.41  (this is from memory).

Bill
At 6:16 PM -0400 5/7/11, Simon Urbanek wrote:

  
    
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On May 7, 2011, at 7:35 PM, William Revelle wrote:

            
The ones that used to change each time you type "(".
It's also happening as described by Bill on an OSX 10.5.8 machine with  
R version 2.13.0 beta (2011-04-04 r55296) running with the R64 GUI  
that came as a bundle from the att.research site. I figured I had  
forgotten how to set an option. I just tried with the 32 bit GUI and  
get the same lack of earlier behavior (.... display of argument list  
at bottom of GUI window when function name is followed by "(". at the  
command line) . And tried with the terminal version and it doesn't  
have the grey border so there would have been no place to display that  
information.
2 days later
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On May 7, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Robert M Hirsch wrote:

            
Hi,

this was a bug in the regex engine used by R.app for MacOSX 10.5.x (32bit).
We fixed it in the devs.

Thanks a lot for pointing it out,

--Hans
13 days later
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On May 10, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Hans-J?rg Bibiko wrote:

            
Thank you for also fixing the 64 bit version.
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT