On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:35 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >> >> On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:54 PM, David Winsemius wrote: >> >>> >>> The display of function arguments along the lower border of the Console >>> window now seems very erratic. If I now type >>> >>> duplicated( >>> >>> ... I was expecting to see the usage argument list along the lower border. >> >> You should see >> >> duplcated(x, incomparables = FALSE, ...) >> >> in the bottom bar - at least that's what I get. >> >> >>> Am I the only one who has seen this feature become less predictably >>> available? >>> >> >> You'll have to be more precise as of what you see .... Since the console >> essentially just evaluates capture.output(print(args(...))), you can >> obviously break it by any R code that changes the behavior of the pieces >> involved. But then I don't know why anyone would to that ... ;) > > The display of parameters seems to be reproducibly inhibited after > backspacing or selecting and deleting a function name that had an argument > list displayed. If I type "duplicated(", and then see an argument list , then > backspace over it and hit <enter> and then type "duplicated(" again, I see > no arguments.
Ah, yes - I see there is a check whether that function was already displayed which inhibits the repeated display (added in r5773 - I'm not sure why, possibly optimization to prevent re-fetching the argument list). Now fixed. Thanks, Simon > I did discover by accident that I sometimes get back the desired behavior > after typing sessionInfo(). I will generally get display of arguments from > other functions after that, but "duplicated" seems to be blanked out until > <something happens to make it recognized again>. > >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> >>>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-13 r57650) >>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (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] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods >>> [8] base >>> >>> other attached packages: >>> [1] latticeExtra_0.6-19 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 Matrix_1.0-1 >>> [4] rms_3.3-2 Hmisc_3.9-0 timereg_1.6-0 >>> [7] survival_2.36-10 sos_1.3-1 brew_1.0-6 >>> [10] lattice_0.20-0 >>> >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>> [1] cluster_1.14.1 grid_2.14.0 tools_2.14.0 >>> >>> >>> David Winsemius, MD >>> West Hartford, CT >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>> >>> >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac