[R-SIG-Mac] R editor freezes after running a script

Jose G Conde Santiago jose.conde1 at upr.edu
Wed Oct 19 22:33:20 CEST 2016


Correction:

I *** do not *** see this  behavior when running R from RStudio (0.99.903) plus R Commander and using the RStudio console to run the scripts.

José


José G. Conde, MD, MPH
Catedrático, Escuela de Medicina
Director, CentIT2
Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, UPR

Tel  (787) 763-9401  Fax (787) 758-5206

Correo electrónico: jose.conde1 at upr.edu

URL: http://rcmi.rcm.upr.edu

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago <jose.conde1 at upr.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am running R (3.3.1) with R Commander (2.3-0) and XQuartz (2.7.9) on an iMac (late 2012) with Sierra. RAM is 32 GB. The file I am working with has about 350,000 records and 200 variables.
> 
> After running a script from the R console (using either the GLM or epiR libraries) the editor freezes when I try to open a new script, and I get the spinning beach ball. When the editor freezes, I still have at least 20 GB of free RAM. The only way out is to force quit R.
> 
> The epiR script repeats a series of calculations for a group of about 30 2 x 2 tables (epi2by2). The GLIM script runs Poisson regression with robust variance estimation. Both scripts run smoothly.
> 
> I do see this behavior when running R from RStudio (0.99.903) plus R Commander and using the RStudio console to run the scripts.
> 
> The issue does not disappear when I reinstall R. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> José
> 
> José G. Conde, MD, MPH
> Catedrático, Escuela de Medicina
> Director, CentIT2
> Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, UPR
> 
> Tel  (787) 763-9401  Fax (787) 758-5206
> 
> Correo electrónico: jose.conde1 at upr.edu
> 
> URL: http://rcmi.rcm.upr.edu
> 



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