[R-SIG-Mac] ESC key and STOP button not working in R 2.14.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 29/02/2012 00:02, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:41 PM, bugreport19621012 at fastmail.fm wrote:
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>> The most recent email on this appears to be https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-January/008967.html
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>> which says, "the most recent GUI is back to the old behavior."
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>> Does this refer to some more recent GUI than the following?
>
> Yes (note that message is after the build date you give) - you could
build the new GUI yourself tonight, but R 2.14.2 is going out to CRAN
tomorrow so I'd just wait for that.

The GUI is a separate build (and install): the current version is almost 
always available from http://r.research.att.com/ .  It has a build 
number (currently 6118) seen when starting R.app: it is good to report 
that as well as sessionInfo().

Whereas the source release of CRAN is due today, binary builds will take 
a little longer (possibly several days, as happened for 2.14.1).

> Michael
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>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] 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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.14.1
>>>
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>> By "the old behavior" does Simon Urbanek mean mean what R used to to from time immemorial, i.e., that hitting ESC would get me out of the current command line, whether I have hit ENTER or not?
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>> To reproduce the problem:
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>> Start at R prompt on a Mac
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>> type: rnorm(100000000000000000) and do not hit enter.
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>> Hit ESC.
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>> I do not get the R prompt. I do not get out of the current command.
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>> Click with the mouse on the STOP button.
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>> I do not get the R prompt. I do not get out of the current command.
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>> How can I get R to behave as it used to behave, with respect to ESC and the STOP key?
>>
>> Jacob Wegelin
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