Rgui.exe fix for "console not found" buffer overflow problem

On 10/29/2006 5:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 10/29/2006 1:12 AM, Jesse Albert Canchola wrote:

Here's how the problem started.  In Rgui.exe, I attempted to get more
visible output in the buffer (I wanted to be able to scroll up the to the
top and see the variable names, etc.), so I put the max of all 9's in the

Rgui.exe

pull-down menus

Edit > Gui Preferences... > buffer bytes 9999999999999

and

lines 9999999999999999999

not realizing this would effectively break the Rgui.exe and no matter what
you did to clean R out of your machine and re-install it, you would get
the same thing (with both v2.3.1 and v2.4.0).  After a couple of weeks of
using Rterm.exe and meeting deadlines, I finally had time to wade through
the vague references online regarding where the problem might be.

Thanks for the report.  I'll take a look and see if there's a more
friendly way to handle this.

Generally starting with the --vanilla option is a good idea to help with
diagnosing startup problems.  If they go away, you've got a problem in
one of your startup files, and ?Startup tells you how to trace through
the startup process.

Whoops, I forgot that --vanilla doesn't stop an attempt to load
Rconsole.  I'll take a look, and see if perhaps it should.