[R-SIG-Mac] Error message reading files in R Commander

Fox, John j|ox @end|ng |rom mcm@@ter@c@
Fri Nov 22 23:04:42 CET 2019 

Dear Jose,

I'm afraid that I can't duplicate this problem. I tried with the current CRAN version of the Rcmdr under RStudio, reading a text file repeatedly into the same data set. My session info is 

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> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[8] base     

other attached packages:
[1] Rcmdr_2.6-1     effects_4.1-4   RcmdrMisc_2.5-1 sandwich_2.5-1 
[5] car_3.0-5       carData_3.0-3  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Formula_1.2-3       assertthat_0.2.1    latticeExtra_0.6-28
 [4] cellranger_1.1.0    pillar_1.4.2        backports_1.1.5    
 [7] lattice_0.20-38     glue_1.3.1          digest_0.6.22      
[10] RColorBrewer_1.1-2  checkmate_1.9.4     minqa_1.2.4        
[13] colorspace_1.4-1    htmltools_0.4.0     Matrix_1.2-17      
[16] survey_3.36         pkgconfig_2.0.3     haven_2.2.0        
[19] purrr_0.3.3         scales_1.0.0        openxlsx_4.1.3     
[22] rio_0.5.16          lme4_1.1-21         htmlTable_1.13.2   
[25] tibble_2.1.3        relimp_1.0-5        ggplot2_3.2.1      
[28] nnet_7.3-12         lazyeval_0.2.2      survival_3.1-7    
[31] magrittr_1.5        crayon_1.3.4        readxl_1.3.1       
[34] nlme_3.1-142        MASS_7.3-51.4       forcats_0.4.0      
[37] foreign_0.8-72      class_7.3-15        tools_3.6.1        
[40] data.table_1.12.6   hms_0.5.2           mitools_2.4        
[43] tcltk2_1.2-11       stringr_1.4.0       munsell_0.5.0      
[46] cluster_2.1.0       zip_2.0.4           compiler_3.6.1     
[49] e1071_1.7-2         rlang_0.4.1         grid_3.6.1         
[52] nloptr_1.2.1        rstudioapi_0.10     htmlwidgets_1.5.1  
[55] tcltk_3.6.1         base64enc_0.1-3     boot_1.3-23        
[58] gtable_0.3.0        abind_1.4-5         DBI_1.0.0          
[61] curl_4.2            R6_2.4.0            gridExtra_2.3      
[64] zoo_1.8-6           knitr_1.25          dplyr_0.8.3        
[67] zeallot_0.1.0       nortest_1.0-4       Hmisc_4.3-0        
[70] stringi_1.4.3       Rcpp_1.0.3          vctrs_0.2.0        
[73] rpart_4.1-15        acepack_1.4.1       tidyselect_0.2.5  
[76] xfun_0.10 

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The output that the Rcmdr generates each time in the RStudio console is

Rcmdr>  Duncan <- 
Rcmdr+    read.table("/Users/johnfox/Documents/Courses/2017-2018/ICPSR/Lectures/Duncan.txt",
Rcmdr+     header=TRUE, sep="", na.strings="NA", dec=".", strip.white=TRUE)
RcmdrMsg: [3] NOTE: The dataset Duncan has 45 rows and 4 columns.

Of course, there's a warning each time that Duncan will be overwritten, and the dataset in the viewer is automatically refreshed. That is, AFAICS everything works as it should.

You can find the data file I used at <https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/RCommander/Duncan.txt>.

Can you elaborate what you did and ideally create a reproducible example of the problem?

Best,
 John

  -----------------------------
  John Fox, Professor Emeritus
  McMaster University
  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

> On Nov 22, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using R Commander in combination with RStudio. I configured RStudio to display the output on the RStudio console.
> 
> If I open a file in R Commander, then view the data file in R Commander and then try to read the same file again using R Commander, the following error message is displayed in the console and I cannot read the file with R Commander:
> 
>> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>>  [tcl] bad window path name “.29”.
> 
> The message is always the same, except that the number at the end changes. Here are a few more examples:
> 
>> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>>  [tcl] bad window path name ".35".
> 
>> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>>  [tcl] bad window path name ".51".
> 
>> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>>  [tcl] bad window path name ".56".
> 
> 
> Initially, I thought there could be a problem between R Commander and RStudio, but I got the same error message under the same conditions when I tested using R Commander with R alone (without RStudio).
> 
> The files seem to be fine, since I can access them directly with R or with RStudio.
> 
> My computer is  an iMac (27-inch, late 2012)
> MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.6.  
> R version 3.6.1
> RStudio version 1.2.5001
> R Commander version 2.6-0
> XQuartz 2.7.11
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> José
> 
> José G. Conde, MD, MPH
> Professor, School of Medicine
> Medical Sciences Campus
> University of Puerto Rico 
> 
> Tel  (787) 763-9401 Fax (787) 758-5206
> 
> Email: jose.conde1 using upr.edu
> 
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