[R] "Couldn't find function par"

[Johannes Hüsing]

Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> [Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:20:14PM CET]:
> Johannes HXXsing wrote:
[...]
> >
> >Fehler: konnte Funktion "par" nicht finden
> >  
> >>par
> >>    
> >function (..., no.readonly = FALSE)
> >  
> Hmm, this could happen as a result of calling par() in a startup file 
> before loading the graphics package.
> 

Arggh, I overlooked a legacy .Rprofile, ok, fixed, thank you. Seems like 
in recent versions graphics was loaded before .Rprofile was read.


> (BTW. "einige Demos" -- correct translation of "some demos"? My German 
> is rusty, but I'd take it to mean "a few demos", which is not quite the 
> same.)
> 

This is a correct translation indeed. There are so many native German
speakers (among who the ones speaking the Austrian or Swiss variant
are in the minority) in the R core team that I wouldn't worry about
this issue.


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