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

[Loren Engrav]

Thank you, I understand
Demolish may be too strong since R is till there in the Activity Monitor

So then as I understand, if the Finder "loses" R.app, if I wait long enough
till the process ends, the Finder will find R.app again

I will do that

Thank you

-- 
Loren Engrav
Univ Washington
Seattle

> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:06:14 -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 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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