R not responding (must force quit) when saving graphic to PDF (bug?)

Dear Wolfgang,

Thanks for your response.

No, I haven't tried doing the complete reinstallation as you suggest. If I
recall correctly, this has happened on previous occasions but like I said
in my email it's not all that disruptive to my workflow. It's more like a
'first world problem'.

I was encouraged to submit the query because I had correspondence with
someone involved with R development: "this shouldn't be happening" was the
advice I received. I use R a lot but I'm not deeply knowledgable about it's
inner workings.

To be frank, I really don't care if this is resolved. I was just trying to
help the R development group after receiving advice that it might be
important.

Again, thanks for your help.

Cheers

Neil

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> wrote:

Dear Neil

Have you tried with completely uninstalling your R, and reinstalling a
more recent version (e.g. 3.2.4 right now).
And then the same with your operating system - OS X is currently at
10.11.4.
There is likely not much interest (or benefit) in chasing such things in
obsolete versions.

And I think R-help would be the more appropriate place for this kind of
question.
        Wolfgang

On Apr 11, 2016, at 18:37 GMT+2, Neil French Collier <

neilandertal at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I wish to report a problem I encounter when trying to save a graphic to
file. When I produce a graphic and try to save it R becomes unresponsive
and I must force quit, and then restart R. The problem occurs when I try

to

overwrite an existing graphic: for example when I made changes to the
graphic and want to save the graphic using the original file name. It

only

happens when I use the menus to save files, not using script. It doesn't
happen when I save it as a new file. So, like this:

1. Make the graphic
2. Click File -> Save -> click on existing file name
3. Colour wheel appears and R is unresponsive.

Reproducible example:

x <- seq(1,10)
y <- x^2
plot(x,y, type="l") # Save as new file, all fine.

#Change plot and save as old plot file name:

plot(x,y, type="l", col=2)

# Click File -> Save
# 'Save quartz to PDF file' box opens
# Click on existing file name
# Colour wheel

Here is the sessionInfo():

R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan)

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

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

I'm not sure if this is worthy of reporting but I was encouraged to

submit

a report. It doesn't really make a huge impact on my workflow, but it can
be annoying.

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Cheers,

Neil

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Faculty of Sustainability
Leuphana University L?neburg
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21335 Lueneburg
Germany

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Wolfgang Huber
Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist
Genome Biology Unit
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Heidelberg, Germany

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Cheers,

Neil

Neil French Collier, PhD
Faculty of Sustainability
Leuphana University L?neburg
Rotenbleicher Weg 67
21335 Lueneburg
Germany

Twitter: @foodsecbio
email: collier at leuphana.de
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