I've committed a fix for 2.3 affecting only "R --version" (don't want to
play with real R output during feature freeze), and a cleaner solution
for 2.4 which gets the startup message and --version even more in
sync.
Passes all checks for me, and the man page looks OK again. Thanks for
spotting the bug.
Best,
Fritz
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:53:08 +0200,
>>>>> friedrich leisch (fl) wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:56:27 -0400,
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote:
>> 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?
> Yes, will do later today.
> Best,
> Fritz
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