[R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window

[Duncan Murdoch]

Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) 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: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
>>     
Okay, I've got it now.  I'll see if I can spot what's going on.

Duncan Murdoch