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

Fox, John j|ox @end|ng |rom mcm@@ter@c@
Sat Nov 23 19:44:55 CET 2019 

Dear José,

Please keep the discussion on the r-sig-mac list rather than replying only to me, so that other potentially interested individuals can follow it. I'm therefore cc'ing this response to the list.

> On Nov 22, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago <jose.conde1 using upr.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your prompt reply, John.
> 
> I clicked on the "Data set" button to read an R dataset. Then I clicked on the "View data set" button to view it, and closed the view window. I tried to read the same file again, and that is where I get the error message.

That's different from what I understood. When you use the "Data set" button in the Rcmdr toolbar you can choose among data sets that have *already* been read into the workspace, assuming that there are more than one.

I still can't duplicate the problem that you report. I can repeatedly select a data set using the button, and each time it becomes the active data set and the data viewer window is refreshed.

> I had the same issue when I tested with R Commander and R, without RStudio.

Yes, I saw that and I can't duplicate the problem in either context.

Best,
 John

> 
> I will check again on Monday with the file you used.
> 
> Best,
> 
> José
> 
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 6:04 PM Fox, John <jfox using mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 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 
> 
> --------- snip ---------
> 
> > 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 
> 
> --------- snip ---------
> 
> 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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