On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Pedro J. Aphalo wrote:
> I am new to R (and S) and I hope someone on the list can help me out. I
> find the following behaviour surprising, is it a bug or a feature?
> (looks like a bug to me)
No, it is a feature. summary does not print anything. If you want results
from within a function you need to explicitly print them. However, a
function returns the result of evaluating the last expression, and objects
at the session level (only) are automatically printed.
> R Version 1.1.0, Windows (x86, Win32) June 15, 2000
> OS Windows 95
>
> cat.test <- function(){
> summary(c(1:20))
>
> cat("test\n")
> }
>
> summary produces no output, just "test" appears on RGUI's
window.
(c(1:20) is the same as 1:20.)
> If the line cat("test\n") is commented out, summary produces its
normal
> output.
>
> Same lack of summary output on Rterm, but command prompt does not
> reappear and Rterm freezes.
> With the line cat("test\n") commented out everything works fine.
>
> The behaviour for RGUI is the same whether the function is sourced from
> a file or defined at the command prompt. With Rterm I have not yet found
> how to type in brackets with a Finnish keyboard, so the test was done by
> sourcing a file.
Well, that's not the same thing. Typing your example at interactive rterm
session certainly works here. If you have a reproducible example that
freezes Rterm, please send in a bug report, and we will try to reproduce
it (and if we can reproduce it, try to fix it).
--
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