[R-SIG-Mac] Re: R bug in edit

[stefano iacus]

Hi Tim,
thanks for your report.
I'm forwarding this to R-sig-mac mailing list. Can you also tell us 
which version of the R.app are you using? (see the about box)

stefano

On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Tim Cole wrote:

> Stefano,
>
> My current R version is:
>          _
> platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
> arch     powerpc
> os       darwin6.8
> system   powerpc, darwin6.8
> status
> major    2
> minor    0.1
> year     2004
> month    11
> day      15
> language R
>
> and
>
> System Version:	Mac OS X 10.3.7 (7S215)
> Kernel Version:	Darwin 7.7.0
>
> I'm using the toolbar button to edit a script. Every so often the last 
> part of the script disappears (although the cursor can move over the 
> missing text), and each time I mouse-click a string of error messages 
> appears in the R console window. Each error message (in red) is of the 
> form:
>
> 2004-12-22 17:10:38.903 R[1383] *** Assertion failure in 
> -[NSMutableRLEArray objectAtIndex:effectiveRange:], 
> String.subproj/NSAttributedString.m:1009
> 2004-12-22 17:10:38.904 R[1383] Access invalid attribute location 1680 
> (length 1680)
>
> On at least one occasion the text disappeared as I deleted a string.
>
> The last time this happened I closed the window without saving and 
> opened it again. The last part of the text was still not showing. I 
> then closed it, opened another script and closed it, and opened the 
> original one again. This time the whole text was visible, and I was 
> able to edit it.
>
> I was also not able to source the script using the toolbar button for 
> a time. The R console initially hung, but later timed out (or 
> something else happened) and the '>' prompt returned.
>
> I hope this makes some sense to you ...
>
> Best wishes for the Season,
> Tim
> -- 
> Tim.Cole at ich.ucl.ac.uk   Phone +44(0)20 7905 2666  Fax +44(0)20 7905 
> 2381
> Paed Epidemiology & Biostats, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 
> 1EH, UK
>