Full_Name: Gavin Alexander Version: 1.7.0 OS: Win2000 Submission from: (NULL) (130.209.6.40) When I resize the R-GUI console window by dragging an edge and drag for more than a second or two, R crashes. The program exits, leaving a pop-up "Program Error" box with the message: "Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An Error log is being created.". I now avoid having to resize the console window by setting the default size in GUI preferences. However, R still crashes when resizing help windows, which don't have a user-settable default size. I am using R version 1.7.0, but can replicate this problem in the only other versions I have used: 1.4.1 and 1.6.2, in both MDI and SDI mode, all in Win2000. Gavin Alexander
R crashes when resizing windows (PR#2992)
3 messages · Gavin Simpson, Brian Ripley, Duncan Murdoch
This is PR#1711 !
On Tue, 13 May 2003 gavin@stats.gla.ac.uk wrote:
Full_Name: Gavin Alexander Version: 1.7.0 OS: Win2000 Submission from: (NULL) (130.209.6.40) When I resize the R-GUI console window by dragging an edge and drag for more than a second or two, R crashes. The program exits, leaving a pop-up "Program Error" box with the message: "Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An Error log is being created.". I now avoid having to resize the console window by setting the default size in GUI preferences. However, R still crashes when resizing help windows, which don't have a user-settable default size.
They do: look in the Rconsole file or Edit | Preferences. (Hint: a `help window' is actually a pager window.)
I am using R version 1.7.0, but can replicate this problem in the only other versions I have used: 1.4.1 and 1.6.2, in both MDI and SDI mode, all in Win2000.
Could you send us a patch please? *We* find is very hard to re-create.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Tue, 13 May 2003 13:47:23 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:
Full_Name: Gavin Alexander Version: 1.7.0 OS: Win2000 Submission from: (NULL) (130.209.6.40) When I resize the R-GUI console window by dragging an edge and drag for more than a second or two, R crashes. The program exits, leaving a pop-up "Program Error" box with the message: "Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An Error log is being created.". I now avoid having to resize the console window by setting the default size in GUI preferences. However, R still crashes when resizing help windows, which don't have a user-settable default size. I am using R version 1.7.0, but can replicate this problem in the only other versions I have used: 1.4.1 and 1.6.2, in both MDI and SDI mode, all in Win2000.
This sounds like an existing bug (PR#1711) that we've found very hard to reproduce. However, I recently committed changes to the resize code to fix another bug; it's conceivable my fix would have an effect on this one too, hopefully positive! Could you please try R-patched? You can download a binary build from my web page, <http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel> You want to get rw1070pat.exe from that page. Duncan Murdoch