[R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

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:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:59 PM
> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> 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