That's really helpful Robert! I was thinking of writing my output to a file 
periodically but that will make my runtime longer. I think this way is better. 
Running dir() which contacts windows periodically because it takes much less 
time than writing to a file. Thank you.- adschai----- Original Message 
-----From: Robert A LaBudde Date: Sunday, June 10, 2007 3:32 pmSubject: Re: [R] 
Windows vista's early terminate Rgui executionTo: [email protected]> At 
03:28 PM 6/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> >Hi,I have a frustrating problem 
from vista that I wonder if > anyone > >has come across the same problem. I 
wrote a script that > involves > >long computational time (although, during the 
calculation, it > spits > >out text on the gui to notify me the progress of the 
> calculation > >periodically). Windows vista always stopped my calculation and 
> >claimed that 'Rgui is stop-working. Windows is checking for > >solution.' 
And when I looked into task manager, windows alread!
 y > >stopped my Rgui process. I am quite disappointed with this. I > would > 
>really appreciate if anyone finds a solution to go around this > >windows 
vista problem? Particularly, how to turn off this > feature in > >vista? Any 
help would be really appreciated. Thank you!- adschai> > You probably need to 
contact Vista periodically so it knows you > are awake.> > Just include a line 
that does a call to Vista that doesn't do > output, such as> > useless <- 
dir()> > placed in some outer loop that satisfies the "drop dead" time > 
between calls.> > Alternatively, you can attempt to find out how to change the 
> registry > entry corresponding to the wait time and increase it to a value > 
you > can live with.> > 
================================================================> Robert A. 
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