On 19/12/2009 8:56 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
>>>>>> on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:03:26 -0500 writes:
>
> DM> On 18/12/2009 1:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >> On 18/12/2009 12:54 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org>
> >>>>>>>> on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:40:13 -0800 writes:
> >>> > Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>> >>>>>>> Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org>
> >>> >>>>>>> on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:54:54 -0800 writes:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > Ross Boylan wrote:
> >>> >> >> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:24 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>> >> >>>>>>>> Ross Boylan <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu>
> >>> >> >>>>>>>> on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:15:12 +0100 (CET) writes:
> >>> >> >>> > Full_Name: Ross Boylan
> >>> >> >>> > Version: 2.10.0
> >>> >> >>> > OS: Windows XP
> >>> >> >>> > Submission from: (NULL) (198.144.201.14)
> >>> >>
> >>>
> >>> >> >>> > Some of the help for setGeneric seems to have been garbled.
> In the section
> >>> >> >>> > "Basic Use", 5th paragraph (where the example counts as a
> single line 3rd
> >>> >> >>> > paragraph) it says
> >>> >> >>> > <quote>
> >>> >> >>> > Note that calling 'setGeneric()' in this form is not strictly
> >>> >> >>> > necessary before calling 'setMethod()' for the same
> function. If
> >>> >> >>> > the function specified in the call to 'setMethod' is not
> generic,
> >>> >> >>> > 'setMethod' will execute the call to 'setGeneric' itself.
> >>> >> >>> > Declaring explicitly that you want the function to be
> generic can
> >>> >> >>> > be considered better programming style; the only difference
> in the
> >>> >> >>> > result, however, is that not doing so produces a You cannot
> (and
> >>> >> >>> > never need to) create an explicit generic version of the
> primitive
> >>> >> >>> > functions in the base package.
> >>> >> >>> > <quote>
> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >> >>> > The stuff after the semi-colon of the final sentence is
> garbled, or at least
> >>> >> >>> > unparseable by me. Probably something got deleted by
> mistake.
> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> The last sentence of this paragraph is also garbled:
> >>> >> >> <quote>
> >>> >> >> The description above is the effect when the package that owns
> the
> >>> >> >> non-generic function has not created an implicit generic
> version.
> >>> >> >> Otherwise, it is this implicit generic function that is us_same_
> >>> >> >> version of the generic function will be created each time.
> >>> >> >> </quote>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > Off-list, I guess both of these paragraphs have very long lines
> in the
> >>> >> > source; maybe your emacs is truncating lines instead of
> wrapping, or
> >>> >> > something similar?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thank you, Martin, but no, we never have very long lines in the
> >>> >> R sources (and *.Rd files belong to the sources),
> >>> >> and then translation of the *.Rd file to a "data base" of
> >>> >> text-help entries should keep newlines.
> >>>
> >>> > I meant that they _are_ very long in the source. Martin
> >>>
> >>> Oh dear, yes indeed, you are right!
> >>>
> >>> So, astonishing as that may be, indeed for the 'text' version of
> >>> help, it seems that ... under some circumstances ...
> >>> the (NAMESPACE-hidden) method
> >>> utils:::print.help_files_with_topic()
> >>>
> >>> which ends up calling file.show() :
> >>>
> >>> if (file.exists(paste(RdDB, "rdx", sep = "."))) {
> >>> temp <- tools::Rd2txt(tools:::fetchRdDB(RdDB,
> >>> basename(file)), out = tempfile("Rtxt"), package = pkgname)
> >>> file.show(temp, title = gettextf("R Help on '%s'",
> >>> topic), delete.file = TRUE)
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *is* still influenced by the original *.Rd file's (lack) of new
> >>> lines, somewhat astonishingly to me.
> >>>
> >>> Even more, I cannot understand that other people do not see the
> >>> same phenomenon (though maybe they would if they cared to notice...),
> >>> and also that you only get the "garbling" problem with ESS, and
> >>> only for R version 2.10, but not 2.8.
> >>> Did our 'Rd2txt()' change here on purpose?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I seem to recall fixing a bug in the line wrapping code, but I can't
> >> spot it in a quick glance over the log. Maybe I forgot to commit the
> >> fix? I can't look into this now, but I'll follow up later.
>
> DM> The patch I recalled did get committed on November 8, with this NEWS
> entry:
>
>
> DM> o Text help rendering did not handle very long input lines
> DM> properly.
>
>
> DM> So it made it into 2.10.1. Do you still see the problem there? I
> don't
> DM> see it in text help for setGeneric in the Windows gui.
>
> DM> Duncan Murdoch
>
> I think it was never a problem in the GUI,
> however when using ESS.
It was simply a problem of Rd2txt in 2.10.0, and appeared wherever that
was used: in the GUI, in Rterm, whatever. The bug report was about an
obsolete version.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> For some reason, I did overlook that Ross was talking about
> Windows. I had never checked it on Windows,
> but did now {using our Windows terminal server}.
>
> Indeed: R 2.10.0 with ESS shows the problem Ross found
> R 2.10.1 with ESS *NO LONGER* shows the problem.
>
> --> I'm CC'ing R-bugs, as this bug report
> ... an R bug after all ..
> can be closed.
>
> Thanks to all helpers!
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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