[R-SIG-Mac] Problems with Rcmdr via XQuartz on OSX Mavericks

[Prof Brian Ripley]

So for people with a CRAN build of R, the tick box is the way to go 
(and/or keep the console visible).  I've added that to the R-admin manual.

If you do build R.app against 10.9, then you should be using the App Nap 
API. I think that in part is straightforward, as 'busy' gets set when 
the R interpreter is evaluating.  So Re_RBusy needs to use the

beginActivityWithOptions:reason:,
endActivity:,

methods on the NSProcessInfo class.  I'll leave that to someone fluent 
in ObjC.


On 30/11/2013 23:19, Robert J Goedman wrote:
> HI peter,
>
> My understanding is that that box disappears if R.app is build against OS X 10.9.
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> I've never seen that box (as I have been building against 10.9 for quite a while now), but I know folks have.
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> As long as it is there I fully agree, much easier than defaults ....
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> Regards,
> Rob J. Goedman
> goedman at icloud.com
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> On Nov 30, 2013, at 11:09 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 30 Nov 2013, at 16:58 , Robert J Goedman <goedman at icloud.com> wrote:
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>>> Yes, I've seen that as well and it is likely not limited to tcltk.
>>>
>>> Question is, for R.app, do we want to ship with NSAppSleepDisabled? I would be in favor (my $0.02).
>>>
>>> If yes I will commit.
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>> One item: I found that there is a tick box "Prevent App Nap" available via Get Info for applications (secondary click in the Applications folder), which is somewhat more intuitive that the "defaults write ..." route. If we make your change, will the same box appear, just selected by default?
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>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rob J. Goedman
>>> goedman at icloud.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:00 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30 Nov 2013, at 12:37 , Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> This does not happen for me provided R.app is visible.  From
>>>>>
>>>>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_9.html
>>>>>
>>>>> 'An app is considered to be a candidate for sleep if:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not visible—if all of an app’s windows are either hidden by other windows or minimized in a hidden dock, and the app is not in the foreground
>>>>>
>>>>> (other necessary conditions)'.
>>>>>
>>>>> which if accurate indicates that keeping the R.app console unhidden should suffice.
>>>
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>>> On Nov 28, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Robert J Goedman <goedman at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, and Happy Thanksgiving for those that celebrate it!
>>>>
>>>> If Peter is right (and I expect he is, but will experiment a bit more if the setting can be updated while R.app is running and take effect immediately), I would suggest for now folks just use 'defaults ...' from a terminal window if they encounter these issues.
>>>>
>>>> Once we understand better what might be affected by allowing the sleep mode we can possibly refine that approach.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Rob
>>>>
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