Dear Thomas, Brian Ripley has already mentioned that Windows/tcltk problems have been fixed in R 2.0.1 beta. I'll provide some background.
In addition to the control-key problems with R 2.0.0, I and my students have been experiencing a number of Windows instability problems running the Rcmdr this fall. The version of R that my students have is 1.9.1 patched, and the same version is installed in the university computer labs. I found that with this version and R 2.0.0 (under Windows 2000 and XP), running the Rcmdr under rterm.exe rather than under rgui.exe seems to provide much better stability. This is a reasonable solution for me since my intro stats students interact with R only through the Rcmdr GUI. I'm hopeful that tcltk will run more stably on Windows under R 2.0.1 with the console provided by rgui.exe. Regards, John -------------------------------- John Fox 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 Thomas Ruf > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] > onemore Rcmdrproblem) > > Dear all, > I'd like to use Rcmdr for teaching purposes but still have > problems trying to use it under Windows XP. Everything works > fine up to several minutes but then Rcmdr and R completely > crash the second I hit a button or key. This indeed looks > like a problem with tcltk. It is not any particular button or > key that causes the crash, but using Ctrl+C to copy something > to the clipboard seem the most 'reliable' cause. I tried this > on 4 different PCs all under Windows XP (home or prof.), SP1. > I did download and reinstall R 2.0.0, RCmdr and required > packages on Nov. 1, 2004, but that didn't help either. Are > there any new insights into these problems? > > Best regards, > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Ruf > Institute of Wildlife Ecology > University of Veterinary Medicine > Vienna, Austria > Tel.: *43 1 4890915 150 > Fax: *43 1 4890915 550 > http://www.fiwi.at/ > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
