Dear Paul, I'm currently out of town, limiting a bit my ability to answer these questions definitively, but I'll give it a shot (hoping that my memory isn't faulty):
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:08:39 -0500 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, R-help! > > On 2 Fedora Core 2 Linux systems, i've completely erased the previous > R and all packages and then installed R-2.0 and installed fresh > packages. > > In using Rcmdr, I see some trouble and I wonder if other people see > this and if it is due to the tcl/tk, or R, or Rcmdr. (If readers > have not yet tried Rcmdr, I recommend it not just because of the GUI > it provides, but also because Prof. Fox has created several very > handy commands, like scatter3d, which make it possible to use > advanced packages like rgl. Rcmdr provides several very handy wrapper > commands that "just work" and users don't have to fuss over so many > details! And, if you are new at R, you can use pull down menus and > then Rcmdr displays the commands that correspond with those menu > options. Very educational!) > > In no particular order, here are the issues I see with R-2.0 and > Rcmdr > > 1. In the panel to select a dataset from a package (nenu: Data/Data > in packages), I can type in the name of a dataset, but the GUI will > not let me choose the name of a package from which to select a > dataset. Nothing happens when I pick a package name. (With previous > R/Rcmdr, I did not have this trouble). > The problem is that the Rcmdr code doesn't quote the name of the package. I believe that I've fixed this problem, but haven't posted the fixed version either to my web site or to CRAN. > 2. When using Rcmdr, some of the output from commands shows in the > Rcmdr bottom window, but some is sent to the xterm in which R was > started. For example, with a scatter3d() command, if I add the option > model.summary=T, the model summary shows in the xterm. But some > other models show results in the bottom pane of Rcmdr. And, it seems > to me, there are some commands in which I've noticed some of the > output going to the Rcmdr bottom buffer and some to the xterm. > As I recall, I've fixed this problem as well, but perhaps not in a completely general way. Again, I haven't yet released the fixed version. > 3. When I want to exit Rcmdr and choose the pull down "exit from > Commander and R", I get a Segmentation Fault that closes Rcmdr and R. > This I haven't seen before. > 4. 3d plots do not display on the screen until I click in the rgl > window that displays the graph. This might be a video card/AGP > driver problem, I suppose. These systems have the NVidia FX5200 > cards and the NVidia proprietary X driver. If other users don't see > the same on other kinds of systems, I guess that will tell me where > the problem lies. > I believe that I've noticed this problem on a Quantian system. > 5. At random times, I get an error tcl/tk window popping up with a > message about MASS and categorical variables. It says > This reflects the first problem, and is produced by the way that the Rcmdr initially suppresses and then reports warnings. I'll check further when I return home. Sorry for the problems. John > Error in data(package=parse(text=packageName)); > 'MASS' must be character string or NULL > > It says that over and over, sometimes it has other package names, as > in: > > Error in data(package=parse(text=packageName)); > 'relimp' must be character string or NULL > > These seem to be harmless? > -- > Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn > 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 > University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 > Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
