[R] setStatusBar function gives error message in R 3.01 under Windows 7

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 05/09/2013 10:20 AM, Gwen D. LaSelva wrote:
> I am running R 3.01 under 64-bit Windows 7.  When I try to set the status
> bar, I get an error message.  For example:
>
> >text<-"hello"
> > setStatusBar(text)
> > Error in .Call(setStatusBar, text) :
> >   first argument must be a string (of length 1) or native symbol
> reference
>
> The related function, setWindowTitle(), appears to work just fine.
>
> Is this a bug?  Or am I doing something wrong?  It does seem to work OK in
> R 2.13.0.

Could you please try the R-patched nightly build (from 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html)?  I think this 
has already been fixed.

Duncan Murdoch