[R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug

[Loren Engrav]

My goodness
To preclude the Hide process seems rather not Mac
But am not sure I have the whatever to tell anyone whatever
You might on the other hand since it demolishes R.app

Loren Engrav
Univ Wash
Seattle


> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:11:40 -0500
> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug
> 
> 
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> This is rather vague but let me try please
>> 
>> Am using MacOS 10.4.11
>> 
>> And sessionInfo() say
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
>> powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1
>> 
>> locale:
>> 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] splines   tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils
>> datasets
>> methods   base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] hgu133plus2probe_2.0.0 hgu133plus2cdf_2.0.0   gcrma_2.10.0
>> matchprobes_1.10.0     affy_1.16.0
>> [6] preprocessCore_1.0.0   affyio_1.6.1           Biobase_1.16.1
>> 
>> And I enter
>>> Gibran81  <-  justGCRMA() #81 .cel files
>> and since this takes a long time I click on R in menubar to hide it
>> and go to Entourage and Safari and Activity Monitor, etc
>> 
>> Then click on R in the dock to return to R but cannot get back,
>> clicking on
>> R brings up Entourage or Safari or Activity Monitor
>> 
>> But Activity Monitor say R is using 1.5 mb real RAM and 1.9 mb
>> virtual RAM
>> 
>> It is like the Finder no longer knows where Mac R.app is
>> So I must force quit, start R over, and leave it alone until done
>> 
>> I checked r-SIG-Mac Dec Nov Oct and see nothing on this
>> 
> 
> If a computation blocks R and doesn't allow it to process events, then
> R cannot respond to user requests. My guess would be that justGCRMA
> calls some C code that fails to let R process events periodically, so
> R.app can't do anything about it since R is single-threaded :/. Finder
> will know about R once the computation is done, so just let it finish
> (and in the meantime bug the author of the code to let R process
> events ;)).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
>