[R] R.app spontaneously switching windows during editing

[Bert Gunter]

Sorry, I can't help; but you should post this on the r-sig-mac list
instead of here I think.

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 6:38 PM John Helly via R-help
<r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> Aloha.
>
> Apparently since I switched to Big Sur, R has begun spontaneously
> switching the active window from console to editor back and forth for no
> obvious reason.  This disrupts editing and has almost destroyed whole
> editing files due to the deletion of highlighted lines (a different
> behavior that has always been dangerous but is exacerbated by the
> window-switching).
>
> I've looked at the default settings in the Preferences and can't see or
> change anything that seems to affect this behavior. I've tried turning
> off everything that might be doing it (e.g., matching delimiters) and I
> can't find anything or anyone else that complains about this. Am I the
> only one?
>
> Any suggestions for debugging this would be welcome.  sessionInfo below.
>
> J. Helly.
>
> -- John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego
> Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840
> 8660 mobile / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj ORCID ID:
> orcid.org/0000-0002-3779-0603
>
>
>
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.4
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
> LAPACK:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
>
> other attached packages:
>   [1] Hmisc_4.5-0      Formula_1.2-4    survival_3.2-11 lattice_0.20-44
> runner_0.4.0     GGally_2.1.2 rpart.plot_3.0.9
>   [8] rpart_4.1-15     stargazer_5.2.2  texreg_1.37.5 factoextra_1.0.7
> forcats_0.5.1    stringr_1.4.0    dplyr_1.0.6
> [15] purrr_0.3.4      readr_1.4.0      tidyr_1.1.3 tibble_3.1.2
> tidyverse_1.3.1  tables_0.9.6     reshape2_1.4.4
> [22] plyr_1.8.6       ggplot2_3.3.5
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>   [1] fs_1.5.0            lubridate_1.7.10    RColorBrewer_1.1-2
> httr_1.4.2          tools_4.1.0         backports_1.2.1
>   [7] utf8_1.2.1          R6_2.5.0            DBI_1.1.1
> colorspace_2.0-1    nnet_7.3-16         withr_2.4.2
> [13] tidyselect_1.1.1    gridExtra_2.3       curl_4.3.1
> compiler_4.1.0      cli_2.5.0           rvest_1.0.0
> [19] htmlTable_2.2.1     xml2_1.3.2          labeling_0.4.2
> scales_1.1.1        checkmate_2.0.0     digest_0.6.27
> [25] foreign_0.8-81      rio_0.5.27          base64enc_0.1-3
> jpeg_0.1-8.1        pkgconfig_2.0.3     htmltools_0.5.1.1
> [31] dbplyr_2.1.1        htmlwidgets_1.5.3   rlang_0.4.11
> readxl_1.3.1        rstudioapi_0.13     generics_0.1.0
> [37] farver_2.1.0        jsonlite_1.7.2      zip_2.2.0
> car_3.0-11          magrittr_2.0.1      Matrix_1.3-3
> [43] Rcpp_1.0.6          munsell_0.5.0       fansi_0.5.0
> abind_1.4-5         lifecycle_1.0.0     stringi_1.6.2
> [49] carData_3.0-4       grid_4.1.0          parallel_4.1.0
> ggrepel_0.9.1       crayon_1.4.1        haven_2.4.1
> [55] splines_4.1.0       hms_1.1.0           knitr_1.33
> ps_1.6.0            pillar_1.6.1        ggpubr_0.4.0
> [61] ggsignif_0.6.2      reprex_2.0.0        glue_1.4.2
> latticeExtra_0.6-29 data.table_1.14.0   modelr_0.1.8
> [67] png_0.1-7           vctrs_0.3.8         cellranger_1.1.0
> gtable_0.3.0        reshape_0.8.8       assertthat_0.2.1
> [73] openxlsx_4.2.4      xfun_0.23           broom_0.7.6
> rstatix_0.7.0       cluster_2.1.2       ellipsis_0.3.2
>  >
>
> -- John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego
> Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840
> 8660 mobile / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj ORCID ID:
> orcid.org/0000-0002-3779-0603
>
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