Same problem here, it never works
Sys.info()
sysname release
"Windows" "NT 5.1"
version nodename
"(build 2600) Service Pack 2" "PCWXPUPLC1"
machine login
"x86"
version
_
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 5.1
year 2007
month 06
day 27
svn rev 42083
language R
version.string R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
Bart
Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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