BDR == Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Fri, 30 May 2008 22:34:28 +0100 (BST) writes:
BDR I think it is ESS that is parsing this as a help
BDR request (so it can divert it to an ESS buffer).
BDR Looks like this is an ESS issue, not an R one.
yes, indeed, hence much more
By whitespace, I mean either a space or tab (preceding the newline).
I'm using ESS:
ess-version's value is 5.3.6
GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
2007-08-28 on terranova, modified by Debian
I have the following in my .emacs:
(load ess-5.3.6/lisp/ess-site)
We don't know how to reproduce this: 'whitespace' is not specific enough.
R's tokenizer breaks input at spaces, so a space would never be part of
that expression. And tabs don't even get to the parser in interactive
use, and you cannot mean a newline. So exactly what do you mean by
I think it is ESS that is parsing this as a help request (so it can divert
it to an ESS buffer).
Looks like this is an ESS issue, not an R one.
Using ?agrep will fail in R, but that seems correct as there is no
topic agrep .
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Tim Hesterberg wrote:
By whitespace, I
