On 23/02/2017 4:47 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:15:27 +0100 Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> on Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:47:02 +0000 writes:> Helo, No attachment came through. Change the file > extension from .R to .txt and resend, there aren't many > types of files r-help accepts. > Rui Barradas As a matter of fact, one would have to blame the e-mail program you use. The file extension is *not* equivalent to the file type, and the mailing list software accepts the (MIME) type text/plain and a couple of others. The problem with most modern e-mail clients/programs/apps/... is that they use something you could translate as "unknown binary format" as type for their attachments if they can't guess the correct file type from the file extension. It would be interesting to know (for me) if there are modern e-mail programs / web apps which you could *teach* about the mime type, e.g., for all files ending with extension '.R'...Well, there's Gnus in Emacs: (add-to-list 'mailcap-mime-extensions '(".R" . "text/x-rsrc")) But I guess you know that ;-)
He said "modern". ;-) Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
