[R-SIG-Mac] Hangs Reading Large Files

[Charles DiMaggio]

Thank for that. Makes sense.  Odd thing is I never noticed this behavior before El Cap.  In Mavericks, would see the small grey spinning progress indicator which was much more reassuring that things were as they should be.

Cheers

Charles


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> On May 6, 2016, at 7:30 AM, cgw at witthoft.com wrote:
> 
> When an executable is performing a processor-intensive task without any
> "hooks" for interrupts,  the "not responding"  status is normal, as is
> the pinwheel -- which is doing what it's supposed to; it's just that
> none of us like it when it spins for too long. 
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 18:16:17 -0400
> From: Charles DiMaggio <charles.dimaggio at gmail.com>
> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.2.2 Hangs Reading Files in El Capitan
>    [Solved]
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> Been a while, but wanted to close the page on a previous post describing
> R hanging on readRDS() and load() for largish (say 500MB or larger)
> files. Tried again with recent release (3.3.0).  Am able to read in
> large files under El Cap.  While the file is reading in, I get a
> disconcerting spinning pinwheel of death and a check under Force Quit
> reports R is not responding.  But if I wait it out, it eventually reads
> in.  Odd.  But I can live with it.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Charles
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