[R-SIG-Mac] R GUI is freezing

[John Magnotti]

My colleague and I have experienced similar problems for a while.

Although I don't necessarily recommend it, we've switched to RStudio in the
meantime. Now that RStudio allows for splitting code files into separate
windows, you can create a reasonably similar experience to R-gui.


John

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Joseph Kunkel <jkunkel1 at une.edu> wrote:

> I have the same problem over many updates of R for my Mac.   After I load
> one R-script into the editor and run it, trying to open another script or
> trying to change my working directory results in R-gui freeze up.  In
> rebooting R I end up with the old R-script coming up in the editor and I
> must close it and close R once again before I can reboot R yet once again
> and start working bing aware that I must not try to open anothe R-scrip in
> the editor after a script has run or R-gui will lock up again.
>
> With respect to the suggestion to 'tr(Y) recent nightly builds from
> http://r.research.att.com/', it is the developer’s page and the link to
> the R-gui nightly build loops back to the same page with no clear option of
> how to load a new build of the R-gui.
>
> There seems to be a hell-hole of problems with the recent updates of R.
> But my ver R 3.2.3 GUI 1.66 Mavericks build (7060) query  says that I am up
> to date with nothing to upgrade.  I would choose not to upgrade entire R if
> it is having problems with its ‘nightly build’.
>
> ??? what to do with this problem which was ignored the last time I posted
> it, similar to Dr. Swan’s experience.
>
> Joe
>
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> Joseph G. Kunkel, Research Professor
> 112A Marine Science Center
> University of New England
> Biddeford ME 04005
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>
> > On Feb 11, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried recent nightly builds from http://r.research.att.com/?
> Some bugs with the data editor were recently fixed; I think those were
> specific to it, but maybe more got fixed at the same time.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
> > On 11/02/2016 10:07 AM, Chris Swan wrote:
> >> No - never got a solution -
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Christopher M. Swan, Ph.D.
> >> Professor
> >> Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
> >> University of Maryland, Baltimore County
> >> 211 Sondheim Hall
> >> 1000 Hilltop Circle
> >> Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
> >> http://biodiversity.umbc.edu
> >> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-9630
> >> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NNfHt5YAAAAJ
> >> 1.410.455.3957
> >>
> >> > On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:23 PM, Moriarty,Vincent W <
> vincent.moriarty at csun.edu> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Christopher,
> >> >
> >> > I just came across your post online concerning R freezing. I’ve been
> having this same problem for many months now over multiple machines. Did
> you ever find a satisfactory answer for this issue?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Vincent
> >> >
> >> >
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