[R] problem quitting

[peter dalgaard]

On Apr 10, 2013, at 07:19 , Julian Wells wrote:

> Many thanks to Peter and Brian for their help; it was indeed a permissions problem; thanks also to Josh Paulson of the RStudio team for pointing me to instructions for making the necessary changes.
> 
> But at the risk of seeming not only ungrateful and pedantic, but also off-topic, can I point out that all this strictly only answers part of my question, which was "why **all of a sudden** I can't quit?" (emphasis added).
> 

Because **all of a sudden** something changed your permissions? Or, the problem was there for a long time, but **all of a sudden** you forgot that "no" cannot be abbreviated? 

Really, it's anyone's guess, but you might give us more of a fighting chance if you told us which were the changes that you had to make. I'm pretty sure that the cause is external to R, though.

-pd


> I'm not conscious of changing permissions, so apparently this was something that was done to me, rather than something that I did.
> 
> All I know is that the issue seemed to crop up after I installed RStudio.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Julian Wells
> 
> 
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>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 23:58 , Julian Wells wrote:
>> 
>>> Can someone explain why all of a sudden I can't quit?
>> 
>> Almost certainly because you have a .Last function that fails. Either get rid of it, or try q("n", runLast=FALSE).
>> 
>> -pd
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>> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:33:24 +0100
>> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
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>> On 04/04/2013 12:17, peter dalgaard wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 23:58 , Julian Wells wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Can someone explain why all of a sudden I can't quit?
>>> 
>>> Almost certainly because you have a .Last function that fails. Either get rid of it, or try q("n", runLast=FALSE).
>> 
>> I don't think so.  This seems to be R.app on a Mac, and that has a 
>> custom q() function.  Now q("n") is never valid, but the R.app version 
>> does not tell you so.
>> 
>> As it says, it is a permission issue when trying to save.
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