On 10/29/06, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/29/2006 8:23 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > > On 10/29/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 10/29/2006 5:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > >>> On 10/29/2006 1:12 AM, Jesse Albert Canchola wrote: > > >>>> Here's how the problem started. In Rgui.exe, I attempted to get more > > >>>> visible output in the buffer (I wanted to be able to scroll up the to > > >>>> the > > >>>> top and see the variable names, etc.), so I put the max of all 9's in > > >>>> the > > >>>> > > >>>> Rgui.exe > > >>>> > > >>>> pull-down menus > > >>>> > > >>>> Edit > Gui Preferences... > buffer bytes 9999999999999 > > >>>> > > >>>> and > > >>>> > > >>>>> lines 9999999999999999999 > > >>>> not realizing this would effectively break the Rgui.exe and no matter > > >>>> what > > >>>> you did to clean R out of your machine and re-install it, you would get > > >>>> the same thing (with both v2.3.1 and v2.4.0). After a couple of weeks > > >>>> of > > >>>> using Rterm.exe and meeting deadlines, I finally had time to wade > > >>>> through > > >>>> the vague references online regarding where the problem might be. > > >>> Thanks for the report. I'll take a look and see if there's a more > > >>> friendly way to handle this. > > >>> > > >>> Generally starting with the --vanilla option is a good idea to help with > > >>> diagnosing startup problems. If they go away, you've got a problem in > > >>> one of your startup files, and ?Startup tells you how to trace through > > >>> the startup process. > > >> Whoops, I forgot that --vanilla doesn't stop an attempt to load > > >> Rconsole. I'll take a look, and see if perhaps it should. > > > > > > Also it might be useful if the Edit GUI screen listed the location of > > > the Rconsole > > > file it is using so its not so mysterious. > > > > The problem is that that dialog is not using an Rconsole file, it's > > using internal values. Those may have been loaded from an Rconsole, or > > they may just be defaults. > > > > But you're right, in the case where they were loaded from a file, it > > would be nice if it were easier to find out what that file is. (It > > wouldn't help in the situation here, because you can't get to that > > dialog: R won't start at all if someone has messed up their Rconsole > > file sufficiently. If --vanilla prevented the Rconsole file from > > loading, again it wouldn't help, because the values would be defaults, > > not those from the file.) > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > There is a "Load" button on the Edit | GUI Preferences screen. > Does that load the values from the Rconsole file? If so, then perhaps > it could be expanded to show which Rconsole file it would load > from if it were pressed. >
I guess I should have tried pressing it before I posted but if you do press it then it comes up with a browser window pointed at the Rconsole file and giving one a chance to change which file it loads before actually loading it so this seems like an easy way to find the Rconsole file that is actually being used. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
