What does the sudden appearance of "Contacting Delphi ......the oracle is unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience." mean? A bug? It appears at plotting. Thanks Christian -- Christian W. Hoffmann, CH - 8915 Hausen am Albis, Switzerland Rigiblickstrasse 15 b, Tel.+41-44-7640853 c-w.hoffmann at sunrise.ch, christian at echoffmann.ch, www.echoffmann.ch
On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Christian Hoffmann wrote:> What does the sudden appearance of "Contacting Delphi ......the oracle is unavailable. > We apologize for any inconvenience." mean? A bug? It appears at plotting.In this instance an unsuccessful attempt at humor: http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help+oracle+unavailable -- David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA
Its suddenness is only as sudden as your input that triggered it. Its oblique
nature is a reflection of the nature of your input.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=R+contacting+Delphi+oracle+is+unavailable
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Christian Hoffmann <c-w.hoffmann at sunrise.ch> wrote:
>What does the sudden appearance of "Contacting Delphi ......the oracle
>is unavailable.
>We apologize for any inconvenience." mean? A bug? It appears at
>plotting.
>
>Thanks
>
>Christian
Hello,
It's in the source code for `?`, file src/library/utils/R/question.R,
lines 32 to 35.
32 cat("Contacting Delphi...")
33 flush.console()
34 Sys.sleep(2+rpois(1,2))
35 cat("the oracle is unavailable.\nWe apologize for any
inconvenience.\n")
36 return(invisible())
It means the call to `?` is messed up. Maybe someone with more knowledge
of the sources can give a more meaningfull answer.
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Em 10-10-2012 17:59, Christian Hoffmann escreveu:> What does the sudden appearance of "Contacting Delphi ......the oracle
> is unavailable.
> We apologize for any inconvenience." mean? A bug? It appears at
plotting.
>
> Thanks
>
> Christian
>
Unsuccessfull? Why unsuccessfull? Have you noticed the call to rpois? It beats runif by potential infinity. Rui Barradas Em 10-10-2012 18:30, David Winsemius escreveu:> On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Christian Hoffmann wrote: > >> What does the sudden appearance of "Contacting Delphi ......the oracle is unavailable. >> We apologize for any inconvenience." mean? A bug? It appears at plotting. > In this instance an unsuccessful attempt at humor: > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help+oracle+unavailable >
> What does the sudden appearance of "Contacting Delphi > ......the oracle is unavailable. > We apologize for any inconvenience." mean? A bug? It appears > at plotting.If you have an ordinary plot command, that is very strange indeed. It's a help message ... of sorts*. It should be no more likely to appear by accident in plotting than a manual page. What was the plot command that caused it to appear? S *It helps you realise you typed too many question marks ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}}