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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: "R" help leaves out lines of text
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552FF744.5080707@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150416T161942-544@post.gmane.org>



On 4/16/2015 4:22 PM, 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.  From the R
> forum, the problem might be due to improper handling of line endings by the
> R port to cygwin.
>
> 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
>

Are the input files Unix style or DOS style ?
Can you give an example to replicate your finding ?

I can that test than if the last R-3.1.3-1 package behaves correctly
or not. R-3.0.1-1 package is almost 2 years old.


Regards
Marco







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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-16 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-16 14:23 paul
2015-04-16 17:54 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2015-04-17 18:58   ` paul
2015-04-17 22:30     ` Marco Atzeri

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