[R] Wooden Christmas Tree freezing when reading in files in El Capitan OS X

[peter dalgaard]

(Please keep r-help in the loop. Rerouting it there.)

So not read.csv, but Finder interaction is the issue, and you have the obvious workaround. I believe something like this was fixed in the patch versions, but you might as well wait for 3.2.4 on Thursday and retry.

-pd

> On 08 Mar 2016, at 00:58 , Lauri Torgerson <lauritorgerson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My data are in a csv file. I have tried working both in the gui (sending commands over) and directly in the R console. I have used read.csv(file.choose()). I just tried typing read.csv("file name") directly into the console after setting the working directory and that worked.  I have also tried to browse to read in data files using the File->Source File menu but that caused it to freeze. I think I'll just keep R open for the duration of this project so that I don't run into this program again... But for the future, I need to figure out why it keeps freezing. Thank you!
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> On Saturday, March 5, 2016, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Explain _exactly_ what you mean by "try to read in files using read.csv" and "reading in the file different ways". Which commands? Is the GUI involved? Otherwise we cannot help.
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> > On 05 Mar 2016, at 17:58 , Lauri Torgerson <lauritorgerson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello everyone. Thanks in advance for your patience with my question. I
> > recently upgraded my operating system to El Capitan and then upgraded R to
> > 3.2.3 (Wooden Christmas Tree). I also installed XQuartz. My problem is that
> > when I try to read in files using read.csv, R freezes. I have to force quit
> > every time. I've tried to uninstall/reinstall. I've tried older versions of
> > R. I've tried working in the R.app and typing directly into the R console.
> > I've tried clearing the work history, resetting the working directory, and
> > reading in the file different ways. Has anyone dealt with this and found a
> > solution? Thanks!
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Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com