Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs interface to R 2.0.0 is broken

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi Ed,

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, M. Edward Borasky wrote:
> There's actually a bug filed on this.
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10739
>
> There wasn't much information from the original bug reporter. Here's
> what I know:
>
> When the R team moved to R 2.0.0, they made some rather extensive
> changes to the way R libraries and packages work. As a consquence,
> packages that worked with older versions of R need to be rebuilt to work
> with R 2.0.0. The details can be found in the R documentation at
>
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html
>
> and
>
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
>
> I don't know enough about TeXmacs and how it accesses R to fix this
> myself, although I do plan to dig into the source and see if I can find
> a workaround. I try to stay "bleeding edge" on Atlas (linear algebra
> library), R, TeXmacs and Maxima, so getting a solution to this is of
> interest to me.

I CC-ed the message to address@hidden which is an alias for people
(me and Michael) who are specifically interested in the R interface.
All R-related code in TeXmacs is in the R plug-in (TeXmacs/plugins/r).
I recommend to look there if you want to contribute.

Yours, Joris