[R-SIG-Mac] R.app ''crashing'' when trying to install bioconductor packages

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 10, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Federico Calboli wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> on a R64 R.app [R.app GUI 1.52 (6153) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0] the R.app stops responding and has to be force quit if I try to install any Bioconductor package.
> 

Federico,

R.app doesn't crash (you would get a crash report), it simply waits for the install to finish. There is no output and R.app cannot react until the installation has finished. BioC server can have very slow downloads so particularly for larger packages it can take a long time to install.

Cheers,
Simon


> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.0
> 
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