[Rd] R not responding (must force quit) when saving graphic to PDF (bug?)

[Wolfgang Huber]

Dear Neil

Have you tried with completely uninstalling your R, and reinstalling a more recent version (e.g. 3.2.4 right now).
And then the same with your operating system - OS X is currently at 10.11.4.
There is likely not much interest (or benefit) in chasing such things in obsolete versions.

And I think R-help would be the more appropriate place for this kind of question.
	Wolfgang

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 18:37 GMT+2, Neil French Collier <neilandertal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I wish to report a problem I encounter when trying to save a graphic to
> file. When I produce a graphic and try to save it R becomes unresponsive
> and I must force quit, and then restart R. The problem occurs when I try to
> overwrite an existing graphic: for example when I made changes to the
> graphic and want to save the graphic using the original file name. It only
> happens when I use the menus to save files, not using script. It doesn't
> happen when I save it as a new file. So, like this:
> 
> 1. Make the graphic
> 2. Click File -> Save -> click on existing file name
> 3. Colour wheel appears and R is unresponsive.
> 
> Reproducible example:
> 
> x <- seq(1,10)
> y <- x^2
> plot(x,y, type="l") # Save as new file, all fine.
> 
> #Change plot and save as old plot file name:
> 
> plot(x,y, type="l", col=2)
> 
> # Click File -> Save
> # 'Save quartz to PDF file' box opens
> # Click on existing file name
> # Colour wheel
> 
> Here is the sessionInfo():
> 
> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> I'm not sure if this is worthy of reporting but I was encouraged to submit
> a report. It doesn't really make a huge impact on my workflow, but it can
> be annoying.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil
> 
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Wolfgang Huber
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Genome Biology Unit
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
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