I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The computer is in a locked down environment, so a straight update of cygwin packages is not an option. Is there anything further I can try to circumvent the problem? My version info is: 64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28 R version 3.0.1-1
On 16/04/2015 12:23 AM, paul wrote:> I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find > that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is > /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the same > symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The computer > is in a locked down environment, so a straight update of cygwin > packages is not an option. > > Is there anything further I can try to circumvent the problem? > > My version info is: > > 64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28 > R version 3.0.1-1 >The Cygwin release is not supported by us, and is known to be buggy, because it doesn't handle line endings properly. You'll need to talk to the Cygwin folks if you can't reproduce this in one of our releases available from cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base. Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes:> The Cygwin release is not supported by us, and is known to be buggy, > because it doesn't handle line endings properly. > > You'll need to talk to the Cygwin folks if you can't reproduce this > in one of our releases available from > cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base.Installing things is always challenging in a locked down environment. I'll post on a cygwin forum. Thanks.
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes:> The Cygwin release is not supported by us, and is known to be buggy, > because it doesn't handle line endings properly. > > You'll need to talk to the Cygwin folks if you can't reproduce this > in one of our releases available from > cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base.Paul <paul.domaskis <at> gmail.com> wrote:> Installing things is always challenging in a locked down > environment. I'll post on a cygwin forum. Thanks.By the way, if it's just a DOS vs. UNIX line-ending issue, are the help files stored in such a way that I can simply run them through unix2dos (or vice-versa), or possibly use the unix tr command to perform some other kind of conversion?