R help - May 2003 - R doesn't remove temporary dirs and about bugreport

Dear r-help,

1.  I always find in TEMP directory subdirs named like Rtmp#####
  where ##### denote a number.

  Obviously, they are created by R and are not removed by it after
  finish.
  Why?

  I use R 1.7.0 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0, English. SP 6a.

2. Is it possible to get known whether my bug report was received?

  I've sent to r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk the following but it seemed to me
  there  were no any reaction. Also I had some troubles with mail
  server, and the letter could be lost.

===the source code of the 'reshape' function contains the following

reshapeLong <- function(data, varying, v.names = NULL, timevar,
       idvar, ids = 1:NROW(date), times, drop = NULL, new.row.names NULL) {

I suspect the expression

ids=1:NROW(date)

is erroneous.
The 'date' variable doesn't appear anywhere else in this function.
Maybe, 'data' ?

===-- 
Best regards
Wladimir Eremeev                                     mailto:wl at eimb.ru

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Wladimir Eremeev wrote:
> Dear r-help,
> 
> 1.  I always find in TEMP directory subdirs named like Rtmp#####
>   where ##### denote a number.
> 
>   Obviously, they are created by R and are not removed by it after
>   finish.
>   Why?
Probably because a session crashed or Windows locked the file: an attempt 
is made to remove the file when R ends.
>   I use R 1.7.0 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0, English. SP 6a.
> 
> 2. Is it possible to get known whether my bug report was received?
Look on R-bugs.biostat.ku.dk to find out.
>   I've sent to r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk the following but it seemed to
me
>   there  were no any reaction. Also I had some troubles with mail
>   server, and the letter could be lost.
I have seen a reply to you (Cc: to R-devel) on that one, and the bug has 
been fixed.

BTW, all my messages to you generated problem reports from your server: 
please do use a valid reply address on a machine which is properly 
registered in the global DNS.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

Dear Prof Brian Ripley,

   Thank you for the answers.
> BTW, all my messages to you generated problem reports from your server:
> please do use a valid reply address on a machine which is properly 
> registered in the global DNS. 
My providers seem to have problems with their providers (up-link
company, so to say).
I am terribly sorry.

I communicated to my providers and was answered that they are unable
to change anything.

I've seen your reply only when looked in the web-page containing
mailing lists (http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03a/index.html)

My reply address is valid one.

-- 
Best regards
Wladimir Eremeev                                     mailto:wl at eimb.ru

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