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Gnuserv, NTEmacs, Windows 2000 and R

3 messages · Martin Maechler, Brian Ripley, Peter Dalgaard

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Martin Maechler
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The following becomes more and more a topic for an R mailing list,
possibly R-devel.

R for Windows crashes are important and should be discussed and debugged
with the experts -- which are not reading ESS-help  AFAIK.

Martin
ColCun> In my very brief exposure to R, I have experienced the very
    ColCun> same crash experience when displaying graphics.  I haven't
    ColCun> tried the fixes yet however.

    ColCun> I also am running W2K.  I installed the binary distribution of
    ColCun> R 1.1.1 for Windows.  I'm hopeful of deploying application
    ColCun> engines here and there on W2K and NT servers.  Let me know if
    ColCun> there are tests I can run for the group.  I have several
    ColCun> machines available to me here that run variants of the W2K OS.

    ColCun> Colin

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    ColCun> -----Original Message-----
    ColCun> From: rossini@blindglobe.net [mailto:rossini@blindglobe.net]
    ColCun> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 4:51 PM
    ColCun> To: Erich Neuwirth
    ColCun> Cc: stockton@neptuneandco.com; Goran Arnoldsson;
    ColCun> ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
    ColCun> Subject: Re: Gnuserv, NTEmacs, Windows 2000 and R
EN> as far as i know, we still have an rterm and especially rgui
    EN> problem under win2k.  on my athlon win2k machine, rterm and
    EN> rgui still crash when i try to do graphics.  a simple
    EN> plot(1:10) crashes both.

    EN> so even after guido's and brian's fix (thanks to both of them)
    EN> there still are some unsolved problems which might be part of
    EN> the emacs ess r problem.

     AJR> Erich - 

     AJR> I'd not seen this posted to R-devel; have you mentioned that to
     AJR> them?  I'll have to get my wife to try R on her new machine (my
     AJR> only access to Win2k, thanks to all the Gods...).

okay now it finally went to R-devel -- quite a bit late so,...

Martin


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Brian Ripley
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Martin Maechler wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yes, but this one is not reproducible even on another W2K Athlon machine (I
had access to one over the w/end).  There are known problems with Athlon
motherboards and particular disks under W2K, for example, so I am not at
all sure this is an R problem.  It's frustrating for Erich I know, but
there is nothing I can see we can do to help.

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Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
There are some intermittent problems on other platforms too, and
there's the off chance that this machine is tickling the bug in just
the right way to make it happen more frequently. So gathering
information on Erichs and Colins cases might still be worth it. Don't
hold your breath though...

We're not getting many clues to go by, anyway. Is there a stack trace
or does it just freeze, for instance? What are the symptoms of a
crash? 

[Those Windows dumps are a pest, but if one gets really stubborn, they
make it possible to decipher where in the program the fault occurred.
This is done by disassembling the object files and using a memory map
of the binary. Not that I'm volunteering...]