[R] Potential minor GUI bug

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Thu Jun 16 23:26:03 CEST 2005


I don't think that's a bug.  Almost every Windows application can do that:
when it's busy with computation, you'll see the "not responding" message.

Andy

> From: Francisco J. Zagmutt
> 
> Is this an interface bug?  Using RGUI for windows I run into a "Not 
> Responding" process (I "smartly" coded an infinite loop, 
> yaiks!), I hit esc 
> and the interpreter was stopped and I recovered the console 
> functionality 
> but the caption on the R icon in my windows taskbar (the 
> individual icon 
> shown for every software currently running in the session)  
> was not updated 
> so the caption still reads "RGui (Not Responding)". This behavior is 
> repeated everytime I run into a "Not responding" process.  
> Off course if I 
> end the session and open a new session the icon caption goes 
> back to the 
> normal "RGui".
> 
> I am running R2.1.0 on Windows XP Pro V. 2002 SP2, Pentium M, 
> 1.00 Gb Ram.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Francisco
> 
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