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

[Lauri Torgerson]

Thank you!

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Please keep r-help in the loop. Rerouting it there.)
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> 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.
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> -pd
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> > On 08 Mar 2016, at 00:58 , Lauri Torgerson <lauritorgerson at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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