[R] Minor nuisance with rw1071
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jul 18 09:32:40 CEST 2003
I believe it's a side effect of starting up tcltk. That grabs focus for
its invisible window: there's a kludgy workaround in the tcltk startup
code, but that it looks like that is not working during the startup
(which here seems to be something in .RData).
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Kjetil , Roger,and Brian,
>
> I'm not sure that this will shed any light on Kjetil's problems, but the
> startup for Rcmdr is
>
> .onAttach <- function(...){
> cat("\nRcmdr Version 0.9-0\n")
> Commander()
> }
>
> .onLoad <- function(...){
> save.options <- options(warn=-1)
> on.exit(options(save.options))
> foreign <- require(foreign)
> mva <- require(mva)
> ctest <- require(ctest)
> tcltk <- require(tcltk)
> car <- require(car)
> absent <- !c(foreign, mva, ctest, tcltk, car)
> if (any(absent)) {
> cat("\nThe following packages required by Rcmdr are missing:\n")
> cat(paste(c("foreign", "mva", "ctest", "tcltk", "car")[absent],
> collapse=", "))
> cat("\n")
> }
> }
>
> In a vanilla installation, mva and ctest are among the default packages, so
> what one should normally see on loading Rcmdr is
>
> > library(Rcmdr)
> Loading required package: foreign
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading required package: car
>
> Rcmdr Version 0.9-0
> >
>
> Another, possibly relevant, piece of information: .logFont is a Tcl
> variable containing a font definition:
>
> > .logFont
> <Tcl> font1
>
> If trying to print this variable causes Rgui to bomb, then perhaps
> something is wrong with either the installation of the tcltk package or of
> Tcl/Tk itself.
>
> I'm aware as well that Kjetil has been unable to get Rcmdr to work
> properly, for reasons that I've been unable to discover. By the way, Rcmdr
> requires the SDI.
>
> I hope that this is useful.
> John
>
>
> At 07:21 PM 7/17/2003 -0400, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> >On 17 Jul 2003 at 20:59, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >
> > > Can we check whether you are each running R in MDI or SDI mode (not that
> > > I have a problem with either, but then I use focus-follows-mouse)?
> >
> >I am running in MDI mode. Switching to SDI, problem disappears.
> >
> >But happens only with one of my many R startup icons, not with the
> >others! It happens when starting in a directory where I experimented
> >with the package Rcmdr by John Fox, and I guess that must have to do
> >with the problem. First, the startup message now includes
> >Loading required package: foreign
> >Loading required package: mva
> >Loading required package: ctest
> >Loading required package: tcltk
> >Loading required package: car
> >Loading required package: lattice
> >Loading required package: grid
> >Loading required package: nls
> >
> >loading extra packages compared with factory-fresh standard,
> >including car. I did'nt change any startup files, so this must have
> >been set by Rcmdr, but I don't know where.
> >
> >The value of options("defaultPackages") have not been changed.
> >
> >When typing ls(all=TRUE) I get a lot of variables names starting with
> >. , most of them must have been defined by Rcmdr, but none seems
> >to contain package name info. I have none .Last() or .First()
> >function anywhere.
> >
> >Incidentally, one of the variables defined by Rcmdr, .logFont, if I
> >try to print its value, Rgui bombs, repeatedly!
> >
> >This is all the info I have been able to find.
> >I have no .Renviron file, anywhere.
> >The only changes i made to .Rprofile was to get html help, and
> >redefing the default editor.
> >
> >Kjetil Halvorsen
> >
> > >
> > > Duncan M has been removing show(RConsole) calls and it is quite possible
> > > that this is the cause, but we do need to be able to reproduce the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> > >
> > > > This doesn't happen with me. When I startup the focus is on the
> > > > console. I'm running
> > > >
> > > > > version
> > > > _
> > > > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > > > arch i386
> > > > os mingw32
> > > > system i386, mingw32
> > > > status
> > > > major 1
> > > > minor 7.1
> > > > year 2003
> > > > month 06
> > > > day 16
> > > > language R
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > on Windows XP Home. Maybe you have something else running in the
> > > > background?
> > > >
> > > > -roger
> > > >
> > > > kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Hola!
> > > > >
> > > > >Starting with rw1071, just after starting Rgui the scope is not with
> > > > >Rconsole, but some other place. This means I have to do a mouse click
> > > > >in the Rconsole before starting to write the first command. Since I
> > > > >always forget this, I end up writing the first command twice.
> > > > >
> > > > >This is of course only a minor nuisance, but why is focus no longer
> > > > >set to Rconsole window when start-up?
> > > > >
> > > > >This is on windows XP.
> > > > >(pre-compiled binary from CRAN)
> > > > >
> > > > >Kjetil Halvorsen
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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> > > Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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> McMaster University
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>
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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