On 18 Jul 2003 at 9:54, John Fox wrote: Sorry for being so late coming back on this, I was travelling the weekend. I tried to remove as much as possible from the workspace (.RData file), but nothing created by Rcmdr. This did'nt change anything.
Then I downloaded the latest Rcmdr (0.9-0, development version) from John Fox page, and compiled it myself for windows. The focus problem is unchanged, but now the problems with attaching a dataset has gone, the warnings about _ being deprecated has gone, happily. Also, the problem with printing the .logFont variable seems to have gone. In all but one trials it did'nt bomb Rgui. Kjetil > Dear Brian, > > At 08:32 AM 7/18/2003 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >I believe it's a side effect of starting up tcltk. That grabs focus for > >its invisible window: there's a kludgy workaround in the tcltk startup > >code, but that it looks like that is not working during the startup > >(which here seems to be something in .RData). > > That there's something in .RData causing the problem is a good guess. To > provide a bit more context: Kjetil reports to me that he's unable to use > the Rcmdr GUI without generating "Warning: The use of _ is soon to be > removed: you will be warned repeatedly" and parse errors. Of course, I > don't use underscores in any of my code. > > The only other similar report that I received was from Martin Maechler > using Rcmdr under Emacs/ESS on a Linux machine. That problem went away when > he ran R from a terminal rather than from Emacs, but perhaps that was > coincidence. (Rcmdr works for me under XEmacs/ESS under Windows, though > it's not a natural marriage.) > > As a more general matter, I've encountered but been able to work around a > variety of focus problems using the tcltk package. > > Regards, > John > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > John Fox > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 905-525-9140x23604 > web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox > ----------------------------------------------------- > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
