Loren Engrav
Univ Washington
Seattle
> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:06:14 -0500
> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Loren Engrav wrote:
>
>> My goodness
>> To preclude the Hide process seems rather not Mac
>> But am not sure I have the whatever to tell anyone whatever
>> You might on the other hand since it demolishes R.app
>>
>
> It doesn't demolish it - R is still there. It just won't activate
> until the computation is done. As I said before, this is a bug (or
> inconsideration) in the package you are using, it should not block R
> completely in the first place.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>>
>>
>>> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:11:40 -0500
>>> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
>>> Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is rather vague but let me try please
>>>>
>>>> Am using MacOS 10.4.11
>>>>
>>>> And sessionInfo() say
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
>>>> powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] splines tools stats graphics grDevices utils
>>>> datasets
>>>> methods base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] hgu133plus2probe_2.0.0 hgu133plus2cdf_2.0.0 gcrma_2.10.0
>>>> matchprobes_1.10.0 affy_1.16.0
>>>> [6] preprocessCore_1.0.0 affyio_1.6.1 Biobase_1.16.1
>>>>
>>>> And I enter
>>>>> Gibran81 <- justGCRMA() #81 .cel files
>>>> and since this takes a long time I click on R in menubar to hide it
>>>> and go to Entourage and Safari and Activity Monitor, etc
>>>>
>>>> Then click on R in the dock to return to R but cannot get back,
>>>> clicking on
>>>> R brings up Entourage or Safari or Activity Monitor
>>>>
>>>> But Activity Monitor say R is using 1.5 mb real RAM and 1.9 mb
>>>> virtual RAM
>>>>
>>>> It is like the Finder no longer knows where Mac R.app is
>>>> So I must force quit, start R over, and leave it alone until done
>>>>
>>>> I checked r-SIG-Mac Dec Nov Oct and see nothing on this
>>>>
>>>
>>> If a computation blocks R and doesn't allow it to process events,
>>> then
>>> R cannot respond to user requests. My guess would be that justGCRMA
>>> calls some C code that fails to let R process events periodically, so
>>> R.app can't do anything about it since R is single-threaded :/.
>>> Finder
>>> will know about R once the computation is done, so just let it finish
>>> (and in the meantime bug the author of the code to let R process
>>> events ;)).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
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