Interestingly, if I start an R session with typing in the console, this phenomenon does not happen.... i.e. it seems to be linked to sending data from the script to console, and perhaps on Lion/Mountain Lion?
Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andrew Beckerman Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK ph +44 (0)114 222 0026; fx +44 (0)114 222 0002 http://www.beckslab.staff.shef.ac.uk/ co-Editor-in-Chief, Ecology and Evolution See our new R Book: http://www.r4all.org http://www.flickr.com/photos/apbeckerman/ http://www.warblefly.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com) On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 22:56, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Andrew Beckerman wrote: > > > A few weeks ago, Dan Rabosky posted a query about phantom text. > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-November/009718.html > > > > I am having a similar issue - using the cmd-Return key combo from the > > script to the console often generates grey text BEFORE the prompt. > > > > For example, below, the first test<-rnorm(10,0,1) is generated in the > > console, then printed by typing in the console, three times. > > > > The fourth test <- rnorm(10,0,1) is cmd-Returned from a script, generating > > the new pre-prompt-text. > > > > I can generate a variant of this behaviour at start-up of R every time. > > > > OSX 10.8.2 Macbook OR MacPro both with R 2.15.2 (64 bit) R.app 1.53 (6335). > > > > > test<-rnorm(10,0,1) > > > test > > > > > > > [1] 0.25936761 0.04522577 -0.62494471 -0.87426290 1.31470309 -0.37134371 > > -0.03225490 0.02028375 > > [9] -0.50492015 -0.74642678 > > > test > > > > [1] 0.25936761 0.04522577 -0.62494471 -0.87426290 1.31470309 -0.37134371 > > -0.03225490 0.02028375 > > [9] -0.50492015 -0.74642678 > > > test > > > > [1] 0.25936761 0.04522577 -0.62494471 -0.87426290 1.31470309 -0.37134371 > > -0.03225490 0.02028375 > > [9] -0.50492015 -0.74642678 > > > test<-rnorm(10,0,1) > > > > testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttest> > > test > > [1] 1.4110371 0.3789288 0.4476112 0.3928953 1.1313824 0.3370125 -0.4822913 > > -0.4033394 -0.1841501 > > [10] 0.4896509 > > > > > I'm not able to reproduce this in 2.15.2 running R.app GUI 1.53 (6335) in > Snow Leopard, but in an earlier session I did observe the ghost-text > phenomenon. In my case it was a column of numbers interrupted by the name of > a dataframe that did not happen to be loaded at the time, but was referenced > in an source document that was being edited using the GUI facilities. > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > Alameda, CA, USA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
