"R" help leaves out lines of text

[Marco Atzeri]

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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