Bing Ho
2005-Aug-03 00:42 UTC
[R] Trouble with SciViews-R 0.7-3, SciViews R 0.8-7, and Tinn-R 1.16.1.5
Hello everybody, I am new to using Windows and R, and have been experimenting with various packages. I recently installed R 2.1.1 under Windows XP SP2, and tried installing the latest versions of SciViews (0.7-6, and R package 0.8-7 found on the sciviews.org website), and also Tinn-R 1.16.1.5 stable. I have also been experimenting with R Commander 0.9-14 stable, 1.0-2 stable, and also tried 1.1 unstable (along with dependent packages). Oddly, although the installer for SciViews says version 0.7-3, the About dialog box says 0.7.6. I am not certain which is the correct version. I have confirmed incompatibility with the latest stable and unstable R Commander and SciViews (recently noted by Grosjean in R-help). R Commander 0.9-14 does work with SciViews 0.7.6 (.3?), but also produces the previously reported error that R Commander is not installed (answering "No" to installing, will allow the correct dialog box to open). I have noticed the following additional two behaviours which have consistently been produced. 1. After installing SciViews 0.8-7 package from the SciViews website, the call-tip functionality is broken in Tinn-R 1.16.1.5 stable. Downgrading, or installing, the SciViews 0.8-6 from CRAN restores, or enables, this functionality. 2. The Packages menu in SciViews-R 0.7.3 is hopelessly broken for me (at least under R 2.1.1). The only menu option that works sometimes, for reasons I am unable to elucidate, is Load packages (the first option); however, many times Rconsole crashes altogether. The other menu choices result in nothing happening. I am able to replicate this behaviour with multiple fresh installs of R 2.1.1, SciViews 0.7-6 (3?) (and SciViews 0.8.7 package), and tcltk2 0.7-4. I am not sure that these reports matter since it appears that SciViews will shortly be updated, but since I found no mention of these issues, I am hopeful that the next version may fix them.
Philippe Grosjean
2005-Aug-03 16:01 UTC
[R] Trouble with SciViews-R 0.7-3, SciViews R 0.8-7, and Tinn-R 1.16.1.5
Hello Bing Ho, This is a shame to me: I have not fixed yet all incompatiblities between R 2.1.X, Rcmdr 1.X and SciViews-R. I know all these bugs and I am working on them. I just add today to the http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-R page that the current version of SciViews-R is only compatible with R 2.0.X and with Rcmdr 0.9-X to avoid further confusion. Concerning the broken call-tip functionnality in Tinn-R with SciViews 0.8-7, it is by purpose. The call-tip server is not started by default anymore, starting from version 0.8-7 (on CRAN, I currently leave version 0.8-6). This is for better compatibility with Rpad that I made this change. For version 0.8-7, the way to start the DDE server is explained in the man pade of guiDDEInstall(). Before version 0.8-7, you started the call-tip server automatically at the loading of the package, thus with: > library(svIDE) Starting from version 0.8-7, you can do either: > option(use.DEE = TRUE) # Force starting the DDE server when svIDE loads > library(svIDE) or: > library(svIDE) > guiDDEInstall() # Start the server manually Best, Philippe ..............................................<??}))><........ ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems ) ) ) ) ) Mons-Hainaut University, Pentagone (3D08) ( ( ( ( ( Academie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles ) ) ) ) ) 8, av du Champ de Mars, 7000 Mons, Belgium ( ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ) ) phone: + 32.65.37.34.97, fax: + 32.65.37.30.54 ( ( ( ( ( email: Philippe.Grosjean at umh.ac.be ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( web: http://www.umh.ac.be/~econum ) ) ) ) ) http://www.sciviews.org ( ( ( ( ( .............................................................. Bing Ho wrote:> Hello everybody, > > I am new to using Windows and R, and have been experimenting with various > packages. > > I recently installed R 2.1.1 under Windows XP SP2, and tried installing the > latest versions of SciViews (0.7-6, and R package 0.8-7 found on the > sciviews.org website), and also Tinn-R 1.16.1.5 stable. I have also been > experimenting with R Commander 0.9-14 stable, 1.0-2 stable, and also tried > 1.1 unstable (along with dependent packages). > > Oddly, although the installer for SciViews says version 0.7-3, the About > dialog box says 0.7.6. I am not certain which is the correct version. > > I have confirmed incompatibility with the latest stable and unstable R > Commander and SciViews (recently noted by Grosjean in R-help). R Commander > 0.9-14 does work with SciViews 0.7.6 (.3?), but also produces the > previously reported error that R Commander is not installed (answering "No" > to installing, will allow the correct dialog box to open). > > I have noticed the following additional two behaviours which have > consistently been produced. > > 1. After installing SciViews 0.8-7 package from the SciViews website, the > call-tip functionality is broken in Tinn-R 1.16.1.5 stable. Downgrading, or > installing, the SciViews 0.8-6 from CRAN restores, or enables, this > functionality. > > 2. The Packages menu in SciViews-R 0.7.3 is hopelessly broken for me (at > least under R 2.1.1). The only menu option that works sometimes, for > reasons I am unable to elucidate, is Load packages (the first option); > however, many times Rconsole crashes altogether. The other menu choices > result in nothing happening. I am able to replicate this behaviour with > multiple fresh installs of R 2.1.1, SciViews 0.7-6 (3?) (and SciViews 0.8.7 > package), and tcltk2 0.7-4. > > I am not sure that these reports matter since it appears that SciViews will > shortly be updated, but since I found no mention of these issues, I am > hopeful that the next version may fix them. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >