On 9/21/07, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I'm working in 2.5.1 on a home machine also running XP. It has the > same problem, and I think I finally figured it out. > > I've noticed that if the cursor is directly over the text, it becomes an > I-beam. When hovering over the blank space around the text, the cursor > becomes an arrow. Selections via the arrow almost always paste properly > into a script window. Copies made while selecting with the I-beam cursor > almost always fail. > > Regardless of how the selection is done, a paste into Notepad never > fails. Copying from Notepad to a script window never fails, regardless > of how the paste into Notepad was selected. > > Very strange! > > Bob > > P.S. almost the testing has been with the ?data.frame and ?summary > examples. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:59 PM > > To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window > > > > On 20/09/2007 1:49 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: > > > Does this look like a bug? If so, is there a different way to report > > it? > > > > It sounds like a bug, but I can't reproduce it. You said it is > > intermittent on your system. Can you try to work out the conditions > > that reliably trigger it? > > > > It might be something specific to your system; does anyone else see > > this? > > > > Duncan Murdoch >
I notice the same thing, (R 2.5.0), except I can't get the example to paste correctly at all- The cursor never turns into I-beam. /Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
