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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 9, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Loren Engrav wrote:

> 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
>

It doesn't demolish it - R is still there. It just won't activate  
until the computation is done. As I said before, this is a bug (or  
inconsideration) in the package you are using, it should not block R  
completely in the first place.

Cheers,
Simon


>
>
>> 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
>>
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