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ESC key and STOP button not working in R 2.14.1

3 messages · bugreport19621012 at fastmail.fm, michael.weylandt at gmail.com (R. Michael Weylandt, Brian Ripley

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bugreport19621012 at fastmail.fm
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The most recent email on this appears to be https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-January/008967.html

which says, "the most recent GUI is back to the old behavior."

Does this refer to some more recent GUI than the following?
R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] 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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.14.1
By "the old behavior" does Simon Urbanek mean mean what R used to to from time immemorial, i.e., that hitting ESC would get me out of the current command line, whether I have hit ENTER or not?

To reproduce the problem:

Start at R prompt on a Mac

type: rnorm(100000000000000000) and do not hit enter.

Hit ESC.

I do not get the R prompt. I do not get out of the current command.

Click with the mouse on the STOP button.

I do not get the R prompt. I do not get out of the current command.

How can I get R to behave as it used to behave, with respect to ESC and the STOP key?

Jacob Wegelin
michael.weylandt at gmail.com (R. Michael Weylandt
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On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:41 PM, bugreport19621012 at fastmail.fm wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yes (note that message is after the build date you give) - you could build the new GUI yourself tonight, but R 2.14.2 is going out to CRAN tomorrow so I'd just wait for that. 

Michael

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 29/02/2012 00:02, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
build the new GUI yourself tonight, but R 2.14.2 is going out to CRAN
tomorrow so I'd just wait for that.

The GUI is a separate build (and install): the current version is almost 
always available from http://r.research.att.com/ .  It has a build 
number (currently 6118) seen when starting R.app: it is good to report 
that as well as sessionInfo().

Whereas the source release of CRAN is due today, binary builds will take 
a little longer (possibly several days, as happened for 2.14.1).