[R-SIG-Mac] hangs on Open Dialog

[Carl Witthoft]

Updated info:  I installed the latest patch version of R from 
research.att.com ,
and there are several things behaving differently.  Now I do not get any 
files opened when I open R, whereas previously all files open when I 
quit R re-opened (even if I'd used quit() and had a normal end of session).
In addition, the Window menu no longer displays windows (such as files 
being edited) which had been closed earlier in my R session.

BUT: I torture-tested by opening about 50 files inside R.  I then 
force-quit R, and then on restart,  R tries to re-open all the files 
again! I'm guessing this is desired behavior, to recover any lost work, 
but it's a bit unnerving.  At the very least, can you advise if there's 
a config file somewhere that I could delete to avoid this recovery mode?


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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:20:03 -0500
> From: Carl Witthoft <carl at witthoft.com>
> To: "r-sig-mac at r-project.org" <r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Still have hangs on Open Dialog Box
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> I thought this problem had gone away, but it's still hitting me.
>
> Yosemite on a dual-core iMac, R 3.1.2 GUI 1.65 Mavericks build (6833).
> I've verified Permissions and Disk, using DiskUtility.
>
> What happens is: I select "Open" from the menu to try to open a new file
> inside R, and I get the OpenDialog window, but the contents of the
> current directory never fill the window; just spinning beachball of
> death.  I thought turning off DefaultFolder helped, but it didn't.  I
> have to force-quit R and delete  the file "com.apple.finder.plist" from
> my Library/Preferences directory to be able to successfully open a file
> from inside R (as opposed to double-clicking on a Finder window's file
> icon) the next time I open R.app GUI .
>
> The only other thing I noticed is that, when R starts up,  a whole pile
> of previously-opened files are displayed and then disappear.  WHen I hit
> the  Mac OSX "F10" function key  to display all current windows
> belonging to R, I got a strange (at least to me) display.  All the
> current windows are displayed but ALSO a long row of mini-icons
> representing previously open (and closed) document windows.  I posted a
> screen shot at  https://app.box.com/s/qutc86rujitb49geur8c  ; this
> appears to match my "Recent" doc list in the File Menu.
> I don't know what causes that -- Microsoft Office apps don't do this,
> but TextWrangler and GraphicConverter(for two examples) do.  I  don't
> know  whether it is related to  R's misbehavior on my machine.  All I
> know for certain is that no other application I've tried ever hangs on
> Open dialog boxes.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Carl
>

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