[R-SIG-Mac] Rgui freezing on function lookup

[Elizabeth Purdom]

Thank you for your quick reply.
> I doubt it  -- partly because I cannot reproduce it and partly because it uses try(..., silent=TRUE) so that the error setting doesn't matter.
The reason I suggested this is that I tried to reproduce the error and 
opened up a new R, so the default error sessions. And when I typed 
heaD(), it didn't crash my program, but did print out the following on 
my screen above the prompt:
'Error in args(heaD) : no function to return from, jumping to top level'
which is why I thought it was creating an error. Then when I then did 
options(error=recover) and typed heaD() it froze R.
> Please send me the crash report when it happens so we can have a closer look. Also please try the latest version of R.
>
How do I get a crash report? There is nothing on the screen to report -- 
R hangs and doesn't ever finish and I have to manually force quit the R 
(using the Mac interface of right clicking on the Rapp button and 
clicking 'Force Quit')  Where is the crash report found?

I'm afraid I can't change R right now because I'm in the middle of a 
data analysis project and can't handle any possible disruption until 
that is finished (R 2.12 only came out a couple of weeks ago). I take it 
that I can't disable the feature in the meantime?
> Also FWIW I see multicore in your list of packages - you cannot use multicore from the GUI (see ?multicore).
>
Yes, thanks. I do know that. I copied 'starter' code from another code 
that I normally run in batch. But nothing I was doing used multicore.

Thanks,
Elizabeth
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>
>> Is there a way to turn off this feature? Failing that, some work around? Its not responding to escape/ctrl-c etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Elizabeth Purdom
>>
>> #this is my session info, though clearly not from when I actually had the error, because R completely crashes and I can not regain control of the program
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] multicore_0.1-3        Rsamtools_1.0.8        Biostrings_2.16.9  GenomicFeatures_1.0.10 GenomicRanges_1.0.9    IRanges_1.6.17
>> [7] XML_3.1-1
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] Biobase_2.8.0     biomaRt_2.4.0     BSgenome_1.16.5   DBI_0.2-5     RCurl_1.4-2       RSQLite_0.9-2     rtracklayer_1.8.1
>>
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