I turned off the file chooser GUI on Windows for directories because on
some, not all, systems MS
doesn't allow directories to be chosen.
Instead, you should get the usual emacs request for a directory in the
mini-buffer area.

For other types of menus, I haven't checked.
Try the following as a global setting

(setq use-dialog-box nil)

and let us know if that solves it.

Rich



On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you try install.packages on Windows 7 to see if you hit this same
> trouble?
>
> On a Win 7 system we have the newest Emacs / ESS from Prof Goulet's
> website. ESS is version 5.10.
>
> We run into a problem similar to the "File Chooser" panel won't work
> problem that existed in older ESS. Remember when R would ask you to
> choose a working directory and it would not let  you pick one?  Now a
> similar happens, but it won't pop up a menu chooser.  When we run
> install.packages("xyz"), the *R* window stops saying select CRAN
> mirror, nothing ever pops up to let us choose a site.
>
> Emacs appears "stuck".   We have to open the ordinary Rgui and run
> install.packages.
>
>
> pj
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