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2.9.0 RC minor issues

3 messages · William Revelle, Simon Urbanek, John Maindonald

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William Revelle
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Dear Simon and other R.Mac gurus.

I have been testing R version 2.9.0 RC (2009-04-10 r48318)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

and
R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-04-10 r48318)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

using the R.app that comes with each installation.

They both work very well,  and can even use 
Rgraphviz if that is installed from source, but 
there are two very small issues

1) The about R window  in both versions says
R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit (5391) and
R.app GUI 1.27 (5391 Tiger build 32-bit), 
S.Urbanek & S.M.Iacus, ? R Foundation for 
Statistical Computing, 2008

Do you want to make that say 2.9.0 ?

2) The install local source package in the R 
package installer continues to have that weird 
typo  (Install,A umlaut Parenthesis mark) that 
has been around for a while (and justifiably 
ignored, for it is a trivial problem).

Thanks for the wonderful interface.  I was 
teaching a short course on R for psychologists 
last week and felt sorry for those who were using 
the PC interface.

Best wishes,

Bill
R version 2.9.0 RC (2009-04-10 r48318)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] MASS_7.2-46           Rgraphviz_1.21.10 
graph_1.21.4          GPArotation_2008.05-1 
psych_1.0-68

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.11.13 tools_2.9.0
Simon Urbanek
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Thanks, Bill.

a few comments inline.
On Apr 11, 2009, at 6:10 PM, William Revelle wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Thanks, I usually change the name to include the R version for the  
release. The devel versions usually don't have an R version number  
(because it' hard-coded), but apparently I didn't remove it. The  
release will definitely have 2.9.0.

            

      
      
      
    

        
This is some encoding issue on the build machine. When I build it  
manually, it's ok, so Im still not sure how to fix it .. (except to  
build the GUIs manually). I'll have a look...

            

      
      
      
    

        
Thanks =)
Simon

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    
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      John Maindonald
    

    

      
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Hi Simon -

The GUI's Change Working Directory is not working for me.  I navigate  
to the directory, click Open, and nothing happens.  Get Working  
Directory is fine.  I can make the change from the command line  
without problem.

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 RC (2009-04-10 r48318)
i386-apple-darwin9.6.0

locale:
en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.9.0             lattice_0.17-22        lme4_0.999375-28
[4] Matrix_0.999375-23-290 nlme_3.1-90
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