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

Jose G Conde Santiago jo@e@conde1 @end|ng |rom upr@edu
Mon Nov 25 16:17:20 CET 2019


Dear John,

To keep the session as simple as possible, this time I did not configure R Commander to send the output to the R console.

This is what I did.

1.  Load the file/workspace using R Commander.

2. Read the data set using R Commander’s “Data set” button.

3. View the data set using R Commander’s “View data set button”.

4. Close the “View data set” window. 

5. Try to read the same data set using R Commander’s “Data set” button.

This is the error message I got today. It was displayed in the R Console, not in the R Commander output window .

> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>   [tcl] bad window path name ".3".



Additional information:

I tried to “Refresh the active data set” from the “Data”  ->  “Active Data set” menu, and got the same error message, but with a different number at the end.

> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>   [tcl] bad window path name ".6".


I saved the file with a different name, but when I tried to read the file with the new name I got a similar error message.
 
> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") : 
>   [tcl] bad window path name ".6".


Thanks for your time.

José


José G. Conde, MD, MPH
Catedrático
Escuela de Medicina
Recinto de Ciencias Médicas
Universidad de Puerto Rico

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

Correo electrónico: jose.conde1 using upr.edu

> On Nov 23, 2019, at 2:44 PM, Fox, John <jfox using mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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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