That's bug PR#1711 in the R-bugs database. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Perhaps unrelated but for what it may be worth. > > Like many, I fiddle while thinking. Part of my fiddling has been to rapidly > resize the R consule window back and forth by dragging with the mouse on the > bottom right hand corner. I resize the window by a small amount rapidly and > continually . After about 5 seconds of such movement R crashes with the pop > up "Rgui.exe has generated errors..." This has happened ever since 1.3, I > think. It is unrelated to any other programs I may be running at the time. > > I currently run W2000 and latest R1.6.2. The 1.7.0 development version has > same behaviour. > > I have no problem with this. The value of R is immeasurable and the small > lesson in self discipline has been good for me. > > Simon Gatehouse > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darryl Greig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'R-Help (E-mail)' > Subject: RE: BSOD with ESS[R] under win2000 > > > It's certainly a difficult problem to isolate - as you say it may well > be connected to some other combination of application / drivers. I shall > investigate emacs help as a next step. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:08 AM > To: Darryl Greig > Cc: R-Help (E-mail) > Subject: Re: BSOD with ESS[R] under win2000 > > > Was there anything to indicate that this was a problem in R (and not emacs > nor Windows, especially a Windows driver)? > > Those of us who never experience it will not be familiar with `BSOD': it > is I presume the blue screen shown by a fatal error in Windows internals. > I think I have seen just once under XP (in 2 year's usage). If so it > contains information about the cause. > > BTW, as the rw-FAQ Q2.11 indicates, this is not the right list for ESS > users' questions, but my guess would be that this is not a problem in > either R or ESS. > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Darryl Greig wrote: > > > I have had a visit from our windows buddy the BSOD twice in one day when > > running > > R1.6.2 under ESS5.1.24 on a win2000 platform. I wasn't doing anything > > special, just > > moving or resizing the emacs window, although I did have 4 or 5 emacs > > windows > > open at the time. Has anyone else observed this problem? > > -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
