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

[Neil French Collier]

Dear Wolfgang,

Thanks for your response.

No, I haven't tried doing the complete reinstallation as you suggest. If I
recall correctly, this has happened on previous occasions but like I said
in my email it's not all that disruptive to my workflow. It's more like a
'first world problem'.

I was encouraged to submit the query because I had correspondence with
someone involved with R development: "this shouldn't be happening" was the
advice I received. I use R a lot but I'm not deeply knowledgable about it's
inner workings.

To be frank, I really don't care if this is resolved. I was just trying to
help the R development group after receiving advice that it might be
important.

Again, thanks for your help.

Cheers

Neil

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Neil French Collier, PhD
> > Faculty of Sustainability
> > Leuphana University Lüneburg
> > Rotenbleicher Weg 67
> > 21335 Lueneburg
> > Germany
> >
> > Twitter: @foodsecbio
> > email: collier at leuphana.de
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> Wolfgang
>
> Wolfgang Huber
> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist
> Genome Biology Unit
> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
> Heidelberg, Germany
>
> wolfgang.huber at embl.de
> http://www.huber.embl.de
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-- 
Cheers,

Neil

Neil French Collier, PhD
Faculty of Sustainability
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Rotenbleicher Weg 67
21335 Lueneburg
Germany

Twitter: @foodsecbio
email: collier at leuphana.de
Google Scholar
<https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=xVdc-dsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate>
Ideas for Sustainability <https://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com>

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