[R-SIG-Mac] Call to test current R 2.13.0 beta and RCs - especially new GUI features!

[Mike Lawrence]

I notice that this version hangs when I run the examples for the
ezMixed function in the ez package. Some play
(https://gist.github.com/909934) reveals that is might have something
to do with the custom progress bar I use in ezMixed, but I can get
more minimal examples just using the progress bar to work, and
furthermore, if one simply runs through the code in ezMixed
line-by-line (instead of using it as a function), the hang does not
occur. When I replace the custom progress bar with the standard text
progress bar, the function works fine.

Any thoughts?

Mike


On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> It's the time of the year to test the new upcoming R release, but this time I'd like to ask as many users as possible to give the new R a spin, because there are many new features in the Mac GUI which increases the likelihood of bugs. It can be downloaded, as usual, from
>
> http://r.research.att.com/
>
> and for those of you that like deep links you probably want
>
> http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg
>
> The new features in R itself can be found in the usual place, but this time the focus is also on the GUI and you can get list of new features in the GUI at
> https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI/NEWS
> Essentially the internal editor has been much re-written thanks to Hans-Jörg Bibiko and thus is much faster, more versatile (encoding selection, better auto-competion) and features shortcuts you know from Xcode (like <Ctrl><H> for help on the current function). Other parts have been improved as well, help pages are now searchable and so is the history, you can use <Cmd><Enter> in most web views and other lists like Data Manager can be sorted. Finally, for your safety document auto-save feature has been added such that open documents are automatically restored even in the [unlikely ;)] case of an R crash.
>
> So, please, consider testing the release candidates in the next week or two and report any bugs you should find. This is true both for R itself and the R.app GUI.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
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