On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, John Fox wrote: > Dear r-devel list members, > > As Adrian is aware, I've observed the same behaviour in R 2.6.0, in my case > under Ubuntu Gutsy. It's my impression that the slowness of dialogs to > display is true more generally of tcltk windows, but is particularly > apparent for the main Rcmdr window because, I suspect, of its complexity. > > Since I'd like to insure that the Rcmdr works reasonably well under Linux > systems, it would help to know the source of the problem.
We think it is solved in R-patched: can you try that? > > Thanks, > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox, Professor > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario > Canada L8S 4M4 > 905-525-9140x23604 > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -------------------------------- > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Dusa >> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:31 PM >> To: r-devel@r-project.org >> Subject: [Rd] slow tcl/tk >> >> >> Dear list, >> >> Building my QCAGUI package using Rcmdr 1.3.0, under R 2.6.0 >> (using Kubuntu >> Gutsy) I noticed the library starts visibly slower than... >> somewhere in the past. >> >> I used the same version of Rcmdr under previous versions of R >> and the tcl/tk window used to open instantly. Under the >> current version though, the window take seconds to open: >> first it builds the base window, then the menus and finally >> the complete window. >> >> The whole process takes about five seconds. >> I don't think it has anything to do with the Linux version, >> because I noticed the same behavior under the previous one as well. >> >> Is there something changed about tcl/tk in R 2.6.0? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Adrian >> >> -- >> Adrian Dusa >> University of Bucharest >> Faculty of Sociology and Social Work >> 9, Schitu Magureanu Bd. >> Bucharest sector 5 >> Romania >> Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ >> +40 21 3120210 / int.101 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
