On 05 Nov 2013, at 14:22, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Kenn Konstabel <lebats...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> on Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:25:20 +0200 writes:
>
>> I just tried it on ubuntu but within RStudio:
>>> cat("abc\b")
>> ab
>>> cat("abc\b\n")
>> ab
>>> sessionInfo()
>
> which --- as you allude to below --- shows that RStudio has changed R
> in so far that it adds a '\n' even when R, i.e. cat() does not.
>
> I can understand that the RStudio programmers want to protect
> their users (*) from getting funny looking output,
> but I still don't like the fact that R inside RStudio is tweaked
> to behave differently from regular R.
>
> Martin Maechler, R Core Team & ETH Zurich
>
> --
> (*) or their software from malfunctioning when the console "looks ugly"
[…]
I agree with you Martin, but what is a "regular R"? Because on a Mac, R.app
does exactly the same as RStudio:
> cat("abc\b")
ab
> cat("abc\b\n")
ab
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
And this is R.app 1.62 Snow Leopard build (6558).
So, does it means that R run under R.app on Mac OS X is *not* considered as a
regular R?
Best,
Philippe
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