Thanks. It is useful to have a list of items that are outstanding. I will experiment a bit more, but may revert to using R-2.11.1 for running Sweave(). Did any of these issues arise for R-2.11.1?
John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm On 22/12/2010, at 3:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 21/12/2010 3:23 AM, John Maindonald wrote: >> Although the specific behaviour that was reported has been fixed, bugs >> remain in Sweave's processing of comment lines when keep.source=TRUE >> >> This is in some senses a follow-up from earlier bugs. Hence the query -- >> what is the preferred procedure, to submit a new bug report? (Another option >> might be to add a comment to the web page for bug 14459.) >> >> Is there now a preference to submit via the web page, rather than send a >> message >> to r-b...@r-project.org? If so, the relevant paragraph in the FAQ surely >> requires >> updating: >> >> <<< >> On Unix-like systems a bug report can be generated using the function >> bug.report(). This automatically includes the version information and sends >> the bug to the correct address. Alternatively the bug report can be emailed >> to r-b...@r-project.org or submitted to the Web page at >> http://bugs.R-project.org/. Please try including results of sessionInfo() in >> your bug report. >>>>> >> >> I have posted files test10.Rnw, test11.Rnw, and test12.Rnw that demonstrate >> the bugs at >> http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm/r/issues/ >> The output files test10.tex, test11.tex and test12.tex are from r53870 on >> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) >> >> test10.Rnw has a code chunk that begins and ends with a comment. >> An NA appears following the final comment. This disappears if I >> remove the initial comment line. > > This is now fixed. It was a different bug than 14459. > >> test11.Rnw follows a comment line with a named code chunk. The >> comment line does not appear in the output. >> >> test12.Rnw places a line of code between the comment line and the >> named code chunk. The comment line does now appear in the output. > > These look like a different issue, and are still unfixed, and are unlikely to > be fixed soon. > > The problem is that the handling of source references in Sweave is messy, and > needs a major cleanup, which takes time. Between now and at least > mid-February I won't have the time it would take, and I don't know anyone > else who would do it. So I would not bet on these fixes getting done before > 2.13.0. > > The problems I know about are these: > > - if you use a named chunk <<chunkname>> in another, you won't get > leading and trailing comments on the named chunk. > > - if you mix named chunks and \SweaveInput, you won't get the original source > at all in the expanded chunks. > > Your examples look like the first of these. I had thought the comments had > to be in the chunk to get lost, but apparently not. > > Just to make priorities clear: in the short term I will fix bugs where NAs > show up inappropriately. I will not fix bugs involving dropping leading or > trailing comments when there are simple workarounds. (The workaround in your > case is not to use the named chunk.) > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> >> John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au >> phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 >> Centre for Mathematics& Its Applications, Room 1194, >> John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) >> Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. >> http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
