[R-SIG-Mac] <ESC> causes R.app to freeze

[Roy Mendelssohn]

On May 24, 2008, at 1:43 AM, Timothy Bates wrote:

> i get the same thing
>
> On 23 May 2008, at 11:04 PM, Art Poon wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've perused the list archives, but alas...
>>
>> I'm using R 2.6.2 with GUI 1.23 on a dual G5 Mac.  Hitting <ESC>  
>> immediately after launch (and at any other point besides) causes R  
>> to freeze (spinning beach ball of death) with accompanying spike  
>> in processor activity.
>>
>> Crash log upon force quitting indicates that R.app hangs on kernel  
>> task AlignAssist, though I don't have the foggiest notion how this  
>> relates.
>>
>> Have not been able to reproduce this error using console R.
>> Any suggestions much appreciated.
>>


This is from the archives on Feb. 13 ::

>> Full_Name: C. E. Timothy Paine
>> Version: 2.6.2
>> OS: MAC 10.5.2
>> Submission from: (NULL) (193.51.118.233)
>>
>>
>> Pressing the ESC key, at any time, will cause R to hang. Please help!
>>
>>
>
> Please update to the most current GUI from
> http://r.research.att.com/
> which solves the problem (it was also discussed on R-SIG-Mac  
> yesterday).
>
> Thanks,
> Simon


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