My system is a Dell laptop running Win XP Pro with SP2 and all current updates. R is version 2.2.1, Rcmdr is version 1.1-6 (also happens with 1.1-5). First attempt to import data from text file (in Rcmdr) works correctly with no errors or warnings. Second, third or fourth attempt to load same data or a similar dataset will cause all R windows, including Rcmdr and R console windows, to disappear when cursor is placed over data file icon in file selection window. Although R appears to have crashed and exited, use of the Windows taskmanager reveals that Rgui is still an active process consuming 99% of cpu. Each subsequent reload and crash of R will yield another Rgui process, until the system slows to a halt (or I manually delete the Rgui processes). System and Application event viewers show no errors or warnings. Same R and Rcmdr installed on a Dell Dimension desktop with Windows 2000, SP4, all current updates, does not exhibit this problem. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. Thankyou Bill Parker
R, Rcmdr crash on WinXP PRO laptop (PR#8583)
2 messages · parker@quartz.gly.fsu.edu, Duncan Murdoch
On 2/9/2006 9:02 AM, parker at quartz.gly.fsu.edu wrote:
My system is a Dell laptop running Win XP Pro with SP2 and all current updates. R is version 2.2.1, Rcmdr is version 1.1-6 (also happens with 1.1-5). First attempt to import data from text file (in Rcmdr) works correctly with no errors or warnings. Second, third or fourth attempt to load same data or a similar dataset will cause all R windows, including Rcmdr and R console windows, to disappear when cursor is placed over data file icon in file selection window. Although R appears to have crashed and exited, use of the Windows taskmanager reveals that Rgui is still an active process consuming 99% of cpu. Each subsequent reload and crash of R will yield another Rgui process, until the system slows to a halt (or I manually delete the Rgui processes). System and Application event viewers show no errors or warnings. Same R and Rcmdr installed on a Dell Dimension desktop with Windows 2000, SP4, all current updates, does not exhibit this problem. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
This might be an R bug, but it may also be some other software that you have installed that's integrated into Explorer, e.g. an anti-virus program. When you open a file dialog all sorts of DLLs run, depending on what you've got installed. It sounds as though one of them is incompatible with R/Rcmdr. If you can give specific instructions for reproducing the crash, I'll try it, but I just tried a version of your description above and saw no problems. I'm using the same version of XP, R, and Rcmdr as you, so I suspect that I was either doing something different than you, or you have something installed that I don't. Duncan Murdoch