although i still don't understand what's happening and why, this problem went away if i extracted the required object directly from the address rather than first converting the address to a string or list and then indexing out what i wanted.
i'm new to both python and computer science in general, so if this is obvious to everyone on the list i apologize. however, it seems that the others have run into analogous problems with long R outputs (see: '[Rpy] R console: long output' thread) and it was not obvious to me upon reading these threads precisely where the problem was occurring. now i know and hopefully this is useful information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
