I wouldn''t call it a bug, but may be people like to know about it My windows editor needs to be called with commandlineparameter -m to create a new instance, which stopped working via options(editor=). (it used to work until RW1011, it still works using shell() and system())> x <- 1 > edit(x, editor="textpad -m")Error in edit(name, file, editor) : unable to run editor textpad -m My workaround is to start the editor with a batch file that adds -m _______________________________________________________________________________ Alles unter einem Dach: Informationen, Fun, E-Mails. Bei WEB.DE: http://web.de Die gro?e Welt der Kommunikation: E-Mail, Fax, SMS, WAP: http://freemail.web.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Jens Oehlschl?gel wrote:> > I wouldn''t call it a bug, but may be people like to know about it > > My windows editor needs to be called with commandlineparameter -m to create a new instance, which stopped working via options(editor=). > (it used to work until RW1011, it still works using shell() and system()) > > > x <- 1 > > edit(x, editor="textpad -m") > Error in edit(name, file, editor) : unable to run editor textpad -m > > My workaround is to start the editor with a batch file that adds -mI don''t know "textpad", but everything works fine with for "WinEdt" using for example: editor = "\"e:/programme/winedt/winedt.exe\" -c=\"R-Editor\" -e=r.ini -V" I would try e.g.: 1. edit(x, editor="\"textpad\" -m") 2. edit(x, editor="\"c:/fullpath/textpad\" -m") Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._