[R-SIG-Mac] Red message...

[David Winsemius]

> On Mar 14, 2016, at 6:20 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes, this is a known bug in Mavericks, a spurious error message form the system. Most apps don't forward stderr to the user and just put it in the logs, so you don't see it for other apps, but we forward stderr in case you run something you care about.
> 
> If you want to disable stderr forwarding because it bothers you,you can do so - see
> http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#I-see-spurious-error-messages-when-starting-R_0021
> 

There used to be an innocuous system warning message that appearing at startup of R.app with the phrase something along the lines of "links to system flippers not found". I found it amusing to be starting up a software package that thought it needed pinball facilities. 

Anyone know of an R package that displays a simulated Pinball or old-style Pachinko machine?

-- 
David.


> Just note that you then won't see stderr form commands you start via system().
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> On Mar 14, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Ivan Calandra <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Mac useRs,
>> 
>> Since this morning, I regularly get this message in the console:
>> "2016-03-14 11:25:58.004 R[656:707] Unknown class '_FITagEditorView', using 'NSView' instead. Encountered in Interface Builder file at path /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/French.lproj/NSNavPanelContentView.nib."
>> 
>> I cannot give any trigger because it comes randomly. It seems that it does not prevent R from working, but I'm wondering whether this is a known issue.
>> Any idea what this could be? It seems that this might not be an R problem by itself but I don't really know what this "Framework" is about.
>> 
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>> Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Ivan
>> 
>> -- 
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David Winsemius
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