txtProgressBar strange behavior in R 2.12.0
I've seen it, but not reliably enough to reproduce. The issue is that there isn't really support for '\r' (CR) in Rgui, and so it was sometimes getting junk characters. However, I think that this is probably fixed in R-patched >= r53662, so please try an update in a day or two.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:
I believe nobody has responded to far, so maybe this is not a wide-spread issue. However, I have also encountered this since upgrading to R 2.12.0 (Windows 7, 64-bit). In my simulations where I use txtProgressBar(), the problem usually disappears after the bar has progressed to a certain amount, but it's quite strange nonetheless. The characters that appear are gibberish and include some Asian symbols. Here is a screenshot: http://www.wvbauer.com/screenshot.jpg sessionInfo(): R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base No idea what could be causing this. Best, -- Wolfgang Viechtbauer Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology School for Mental Health and Neuroscience Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Tel: +31 (43) 368-5248 Fax: +31 (43) 368-8689 Web: http://www.wvbauer.com
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jalla Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 23:49 To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: [R] txtProgressBar strange behavior in R 2.12.0 Hi, I am running R 2.12.0 (windows). example(txtProgressBar) gives me some funny screen output with all kinds of special characters appearing and disappearing. It's happening on two different mashines since vs. 2.12.0. Is this a known issue? Best, Jalla
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