R: R: a question on plot(), workspace or method dispatch, NOT about: Re: [R] RWinEdt, other text editors and R2.01 a problem in pasting commands

[giovanna jona lasinio]

The problem I'm pointing out do not happen if I type commands directly
on the command window (as I wrote in the yesterday email) but it shows
when I source any ascii file containing R-command lines, even files I
used in several of my classes and always worked before.
I'm starting to suspect a virus however my antivirus didn't find
anything.
Yesterday I removed R2.0 and started over with R1.9 but nothing changed.

Well just now I tried, in a new workspace
x<-rnorm(30)
u<-c(510,520,530,540,550,600,610,620,630,640,650,700,710,720,730,740,750
,800,810,820,830,840,850,900,910,920,930,940,950,1000)
plot(x,xaxt="n",xlab="time",main="trying",ylab="x",type="l")
axis(1,1:30,labels=as.character(u))

Everything seems to work if I type on the command window, if sourcing
from a file with the same lines and if I cut and paste. Yesterday the
same happened for sometime on new and old workspaces, then the problem
started over again and this morning the problem was there always in new
and old workspaces... I really do not understand what is causing this
unstable behavior. I used to work under Windows NT and I moved to XP
recently then I do not already have a good knowledge of this OS and then
I do not know if the problem may depend on the R-XP interface.... Or
where to look...

Right now I installed only the basic R packages + Rwinedt packages, I'm
going to reinstall the other packages now...
Thanks for any help you can give me :)
Giovanna

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de] 
Inviato: martedì, 23. novembre 2004 10:20
A: giovanna jona lasinio
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Oggetto: Re: R: a question on plot(), workspace or method dispatch, NOT
about: Re: [R] RWinEdt, other text editors and R2.01 a problem in
pasting commands


giovanna jona lasinio wrote:

> I'm using R since version 1.6, and  I didn't redefine plot in my 
> workspace (I would never even dream of doing anything like that), I 
> didn't change any R-environment variable or option in the last 4 
> month. In my example x is a vector of 30 real values ...
> 
> I installed the windows service pack2 lately and I removed it now as 
> the microsoft help desk suggested, but the problem is still there and 
> it is there even with a new computer on which I installed R for the 
> first time yesterday. The real problem is that the copy-paste 
> procedure is not recognized any more on these two computers. If I try 
> to paste any command using other editors then WinEdt the problem is 
> still there it extends to almost all R commands, only assign and basic

> arithmetic is performed correctly

And the same command works when typed in the Console in exactly the same

way?

>  in the last two days I tried the following editors:
> 1. the display file window in the RGUI
> 2. RWinEdt
> 3. Xemacs
> 3. Word pad
> 4. Block notes
> With no changes.
> 
> Conclusion: How it may happen that the copy and paste procedure stop 
> working?

Please specify a reproducible example, i.e. the data, and the code! What
is the output of str(x)? Does it still happen when R has been started
with --vanilla?

Uwe Ligges


> Giovanna
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
> Inviato: lunedì, 22. novembre 2004 18:55
> A: giovanna jona lasinio
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Oggetto: a question on plot(), workspace or method dispatch, NOT
about:
> Re: [R] RWinEdt, other text editors and R2.01 a problem in pasting
> commands
> 
> 
> giovanna jona lasinio wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear All,
>>In the last few days I started using the last version of R as I
>>encountered a problem with R1.9 and the use of RWinEdt, however the 
>>problem shows with R2.01 as well. More precisely
>>
>>1. I install R2.01 after removing old verions of R
>>2. I Install RWinEdt package versione RWinEdt_1.6-2 and
>>SWinRegistry_0.3-2 and everything seems fine 3. I recall the RWinEdt 
>>library (library(RWinEdt)) and WinEdt appears 4. now after loading a 
>>workspace I run the following command using the paste icon in WinEdt:
>>plot(x,xaxt="n",xlab="time",
> 
> ylab=expression(alpha),main=nome,type="l")
> 
>>And I get the following error message:
>><<Error in stripchart(x, ...) : unused argument(s) (xaxt ...)>>
>>>From now on the plot command stops working, it doesn't recognize any
>>option not even type="l" or type="b" or anything.
>>
>>If I type the intrusction directly on the command window without any
>>previous paste operation from WinEdt the command works properly.
>>
>>Furthermore if I try to paste commands by simply coping it from a text
> 
> 
>>file and pasting it on the R command window I have the same problem. I
> 
> 
>>even tried:
>>source("prova.txt") containing the same command line and I got the
>>same
>>error:
>>Error in stripchart(x, ...) : unused argument(s) (xaxt ...)
>>
>>I'm not very good at using Windows XP, can anyone help?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Giovanna Jona Lasinio
> 
> 
> Please don't complain about R-WinEdt, WinEdt, other editors, or 
> Windows
> if the point is obviously somewhere else!
> 
> 1. Have you redefined plot() in your workspace?
> 2. What kind of object is x (in particular it's class, please!)?
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
>