[R] Cannot quit R - fame package issue?

[Jeffrey J. Hallman]

I am the author of the 'fame' package, and I can confirm that earlier versions
did indeed use Greg Warnes addLast() function to add to the user's .Last()
function.  The current version no longer does so.  

Jeff

Dan Slayback <dan.slayback at nasa.gov> writes:

> Thanks very much for the tips. Simply removing .Last did allow me to exit, and
> looking at sessionInfo showed that there was a "fame_2.3" namespace loaded,
> even without loading the fame package, which I guess had this remnant code for
> .Last from a previous version of fame (there appears to be no .Last in the
> current version of fame):
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base    
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] fame_2.3
>
>
>> loadedNamespaces()
> [1] "base"      "fame"      "graphics"  "grDevices" "methods"   "stats"   [7]
> "utils"   
>
>
> So after unloading the namespace fame, and rm(.Last), and re-saving the
> workspace, I can now exit without problems - thanks!
>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> See the help for .Last:
>>
>>      Immediately _before_ terminating, the function '.Last()' is
>>      executed if it exists and 'runLast' is true. If in interactive use
>>      there are errors in the '.Last' function, control will be returned
>>      to the command prompt, so do test the function thoroughly.
>>
>> You can avoid it via arguments to q() (see its help). However, if the 'fame'
>> package has been ill-mannered enough to put a .Last in your workspace, then
>> you can and should delete it and re-save the workspace.
>>
>> I can't see the function "validServerIsRunning" in the current fame package,
>> so it may be a legacy of a workspace from an earlier version.
>>
>> Packages really should not be using the user's workspace, and in particular
>> not setting .Last there.  A couple of packages do have .Last in their space,
>> but it is not guaranteed that their version will be visible: reg.finalizer()
>> is the way to do this in a package.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Dan Slayback wrote:
>>
>>> Hello list member:
>>>
>>> I've recently had a problem in that I'm unable to quit an R Session. I
>>> noticed this after the update to 2.8.0, but I believe I also noticed it on
>>> another machine, in the previous version.  It occurs on both linux and Mac
>>> platforms. It only occurs when I start R in some particular workspaces that
>>> have alot of objects in them; it does not occur if I start R in an empty
>>> workspace. I dont have to do anything in the workspace after starting R to
>>> get this to occur, and no packages are loaded by default. Here's a summary
>>> from a Linux environment:
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> $ R
>>>
>>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>>> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>>
>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>>
>>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>>
>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>>
>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>>
>>> [Previously saved workspace restored]
>>>
>>>> search()
>>> [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:stats"     "package:graphics"
>>> [4] "package:grDevices" "package:utils"     "package:datasets"
>>> [7] "package:methods"   "Autoloads"         "package:base"    > q()
>>> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>>> Error in .Last() : could not find function "validServerIsRunning"
>>>> .Last
>>> function ()
>>> {
>>>   if (exists("fameRunning") && fameRunning())
>>>       fameStop()
>>>   if (validServerIsRunning())
>>>       endServerSession()
>>> }
>>> <environment: namespace:fame>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> As the .Last function is referring to the fame package, I figure it must be
>>> something to do with that. There are objects in the workspace that require
>>> fame to be loaded, but at this point, I have not loaded the fame package,
>>> or accessed those objects. If loaded, the same error occurs when trying to
>>> quit.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
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>>
>
>
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-- 
Jeff