[R-SIG-Mac] error stream getting unworkable.

[Timothy Bates]

Hi Duncan,
I’m using the current release MacOS 12/Monterey. and also the version scheduled for release in Fall (MacOS 13/Ventura developer),

Catalina is three years old which might explain our different experience - A lot of the error stream refers to use of deprecated function calls, which increase with each version.

I haven’t yet started tot keep a list of all the warnings/errors but many are due to R.app calling deprecated MacOS functions. Those should be updated to current functions. Also failures to support newer OS requirements (like, I think idling/app sleep). I’ll note here also that RR,app doesn’t support the new "Stage manager” windowing which will be ubiquitous in a few months: The drop downs for code completion render in their own mini windows, and the main window doesn’t come to the front on launch.

Redirecting system call errors to a log file would help users by keeping the console free of spurious text

Preferably, putting the Xcode project on github and accepting pull requests could allow more eyes on this.
Or perhaps sponsor a summer cleanup  project for a student to modernise the codebase.

best, tim

R version: R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 
MacOS: 13.0


> On 6 Aug 2022, at 10:38, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I only see very occasional errors in the console.  What versions of the OS and R are you using?  I'm using Catalina 10.15.7 with R.app 1.79 (8095 High Sierra build) running R 4.2.1.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 06/08/2022 5:26 a.m., Timothy Bates wrote:
>> Just to say that the stream of error text in the console is at the point where usability is dramatically impaired.
>> Entering a model and generating output both file the console with error code,,,
>> Even moving the cursor now triggers lines of reporting for each move
>> No other app does this, and I think we need a solution
>> examples below...
>> Warning: Could not create system idle sleep assertion (-536870211)
>> 2022-08-05 09:21:34.468 R[476:3215] *** -[_NSActivityAssertion _initWithActivityOptions:reason:expirationHandler:]: Warning: Could not create system idle sleep assertion (-536870211)
>> 2022-08-05 09:21:34.469 R[476:3215] *** -[_NSActivityAssertion _initWithActivityOptions:reason:expirationHandler:]: Warning: Could not create system idle sleep assertion (-536870211)
>> 2022-08-05 09:20:43.962 R[476:3215] *** -[_NSActivityAssertion _initWithActivityOptions:reason:expirationHandler:]: Warning: Could not create system idle sleep assertion (-536870211)
>>> m1 = lm(BaddeleyB ~ SOSeffort, data = df); umxAPA(m1, std = TRUE)
>> 2022-08-05 09:22:00.025 R[476:3215] *** -[_NSActivityAssertion _initWithActivityOptions:reason:expirationHandler:]: Warning: Could not create system idle sleep assertion (-536870211)
>> (Intercept) β = 0 [-0.1, 0.1], t = 0, p = 1.000
>> SOSeffort β = 0.26 [0.15, 0.36], t = 4.88, p < 0.001
>> R² = 0.067 (adj = 0.065)2022-08-05 09:22:00.050 R[476:3215] *** -[_NSActivityAssertion _initWithActivityOptions:reason:expirationHandler:]: Warning: Could not create system idle sleep assertion (-536870211)
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>> Choosing result from list: item 'Paste' in menu 'Edit' with match penalty 0
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