[rkward-users] Command line limit

[Birk Diedenhofen]

Hi!

> This should now be fixed in our SVN version (http://p.sf.net/rkward/svn). It
> would be nice, if you could do some testing, too. Let us know, if you find any
> further issues.

That was quick! I've done some testing and now it works without any problems.
Thanks!




Regards
Birk


Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> hat am 22.
Mai 2012 um 20:12 geschrieben:

> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 22 May 2012, Birk Diedenhofen wrote:
> > > have you actually tried this in RKWard? Because to the best of my
> > > knowledge, we do not have this bug.
> >
> > Yes, simply run the code generated by this command
> >
> >    paste("x<-'", paste(rep("|_", 2048), collapse=""), "'", sep="")
> >
> > and print(x). At the end of the output you should see that one underscore
> > (the 4096th character of the line generated above) is missing:
> > "..._|_|_||_|_|_...". If you add a line break behind "x<-", rerun the code
> > and print(x) again, the missing character moves further down the string.
>
> ah, indeed. I did not do enough testing (the R variant of the bug is more
> likely to produce a syntax error, and therefore to show immediate symptoms).
>
> This should now be fixed in our SVN version (http://p.sf.net/rkward/svn). It
> would be nice, if you could do some testing, too. Let us know, if you find any
> further issues.
>
> > I tried your example and pasted more than 100 times
> >   x <- "This statement is without a point"
> > into the console, with and without surrounding curly brackets.
> >
> > Both times I get this error:
>
> Hm, I could have sworn the bug shows only with the curly brackets, but you are
> right, it also shows without. No idea what might be the cause, here. Anyway,
> the take-home-message is:
> * Pasting any larger pieces of code into a plain R console is buggy.
> * RKWard is not (any longer) affected by this bug / these bugs.
>
> > I guess that your and my example expose two different problems.
>
> Yes, probably.
>
> Regards
> Thomas