[Jprogramming] Rserve interface with J

[Sherlock, Ric]

---Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> ---Chris Burke wrote:
> > 
> > The wiki example works correctly for me, tested with R 2.6.2.
> > 
> > The result you get looks odd - the levels really are the list 
> > four, one, 
> > three, two (in alpha order), so the term "package:MASS" looks 
> > spurious.
> > 
> > Do you get this term in other uses of Rserve? Do you have your own 
> > version of R (MASS standing for Massey), so this is a 
> signature being 
> > added to the internal representation?
> 
> The result I get is repeatable. I was working with R 2.6.1, which I
> downloaded it from the R website, so I don't think it has 
> anything to do
> with Massey. I will try 2.6.2 and see if I still get the same answer.

Same result in a vanilla 2.6.2 installation. I tried J6.02, J6.01, jwdp
and jwdw with no difference. I then tried J6.02 on Windows XP and got
the same result as the wiki. So there seems to be something Vista
specific going on here.