On 4/11/2006 7:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
R-devel'ers,
On 11 April 2006 at 10:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| Kanru,
|
| Thanks for the bugreport.
|
| On 11 April 2006 at 22:03, Kanru Chen wrote:
| | Package: r-base-core
| | Version: 2.2.1.svn37668-1
| | Severity: minor
| |
| | In manpage of /usr/bin/R, the first, fourth and last line shows `VERSION'
| | instead of `R'.
I haven't seen any follow-up yet -- here is what it looks like (cut and
pasted from Emacs man page viewer) and note the 'Version' in place of R:
VERSION(1) FSF VERSION(1)
NAME
Version - a language for data analysis and graphics
SYNOPSIS
R [options] [< infile] [> outfile]
R CMD command [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
Start R, a system for statistical computation and graphics, with the
specified options, or invoke an R tool via the 'R CMD' interface.
[...]
| | I believe it is a typo.
|
| More likely something is wrong with how R.1 is autogenerated using help2man.
|
| Incidentally, that `R --version' now starts its ouput with 'Version' rather
| than R had bit us in the RPy builds where the version number was regexp'ed
| out of the result, and was still expecting the line to start with R just like
| help2man seems to expect the program name first.
It seems to stem from src/main/version.c:
void attribute_hidden PrintVersionString(char *s)
{
if(strcmp(R_SVN_REVISION, "unknown")==0)
{
sprintf(s, "Version %s.%s %s (%s-%s-%s)",
R_MAJOR, R_MINOR, R_STATUS, R_YEAR, R_MONTH, R_DAY);
}
else{
if(strlen(R_STATUS)==0){
sprintf(s, "Version %s.%s (%s-%s-%s)",
R_MAJOR, R_MINOR, R_YEAR, R_MONTH, R_DAY);
}
else{
sprintf(s, "Version %s.%s %s (%s-%s-%s r%s)",
R_MAJOR, R_MINOR, R_STATUS, R_YEAR, R_MONTH, R_DAY,
R_SVN_REVISION);
}
}
}
Would replacing 'Version ...' with 'R (Version ...)' be an acceptable
alternative ?
I think the problem is that PrintVersion (a few lines up from there)
used to put the R in front; PrintVersionString doesn't include the R.
PrintVersionString is called from other places where the R would not be
appropriate, but PrintVersion is only called when acting on `R
--version' or synonyms.
Fritz, I think this was your change in r36923 a few months ago. Do you
have time to deal with it?
Duncan
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