[R] R gui problem for windows

[Feng Li]

Thank you for spending time to point me to the posting guide. I
apology for the unclear statement for the R version. It is 32bit
2.12.2.

I love computer programs because I can always "undo"  what I did
before. For example I did not intend to close the program but I hit
the mouse by mistake. Then I thought the "cancel command" can help me.
And a lot programs have this option, so does R gui for windows.

What I found in R gui is that the click even terminates the running
task first  and then asks for saving image. But if the user regrets
what he did, it it too late to go back to the running task. I though
maybe it is possible to put a top layer to check if the user clicked
"cancel", then do nothing, otherwise, do as usual did. I know how to
run R in a batched mode and all I said is based on user experience
point of view. A good user experience will let more people love R.



That is all my concern. Have a good day!

Feng

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Feng Li wrote:
>
>> Dear R,
>>
>> I rare use the standard R-gui on Windows. Yesterday I tried the latest
>> stable release on Windows 7 and XP and found one thing interesting. Assume
>
> You were asked in the posting guide (which clearly you have ignored as you sent HTML) to be accurate about your version information.  We don't describe any version as 'latest stable'.
>
>> currently I am running R code, say
>>
>>> example(plot)
>>
>> Then I click the "close window" button on the R main window. R asks me to
>> save workspace image or not. Then I click "cancel". I suspect that my
>> program "example(plot)" should continue but it is interrupted eventually.
>>
>> I would like to know the mechanism behind this and wonder whether this can
>> be improved or not. It is a minor problem but I believe it can be very
>> convenient for the window users especially when they are running time
>> consuming simulations. What do you think?
>
> How to run batch jobs on Windows is documented in the rw-FAQ (which the posting guide pointed you to).  Rgui (sic) is not intended for batch jobs, and like all other Windows GUIs I have ever seen, closing the main windows terminates the process.
>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Feng
>>
>> --
>> Feng Li
>> Department of Statistics
>> Stockholm University
>> 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
>> http://feng.li/
>>
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>
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>
> That does mean you ....
>
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Feng Li
Department of Statistics
Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
http://feng.li/