Updated info: I installed the latest patch version of R from
research.att.com ,
and there are several things behaving differently. Now I do not get any
files opened when I open R, whereas previously all files open when I
quit R re-opened (even if I'd used quit() and had a normal end of session).
In addition, the Window menu no longer displays windows (such as files
being edited) which had been closed earlier in my R session.
BUT: I torture-tested by opening about 50 files inside R. I then
force-quit R, and then on restart, R tries to re-open all the files
again! I'm guessing this is desired behavior, to recover any lost work,
but it's a bit unnerving. At the very least, can you advise if there's
a config file somewhere that I could delete to avoid this recovery mode?
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:20:03 -0500
From: Carl Witthoft <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Still have hangs on Open Dialog Box
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I thought this problem had gone away, but it's still hitting me.
Yosemite on a dual-core iMac, R 3.1.2 GUI 1.65 Mavericks build (6833).
I've verified Permissions and Disk, using DiskUtility.
What happens is: I select "Open" from the menu to try to open a new file
inside R, and I get the OpenDialog window, but the contents of the
current directory never fill the window; just spinning beachball of
death. I thought turning off DefaultFolder helped, but it didn't. I
have to force-quit R and delete the file "com.apple.finder.plist" from
my Library/Preferences directory to be able to successfully open a file
from inside R (as opposed to double-clicking on a Finder window's file
icon) the next time I open R.app GUI .
The only other thing I noticed is that, when R starts up, a whole pile
of previously-opened files are displayed and then disappear. WHen I hit
the Mac OSX "F10" function key to display all current windows
belonging to R, I got a strange (at least to me) display. All the
current windows are displayed but ALSO a long row of mini-icons
representing previously open (and closed) document windows. I posted a
screen shot at https://app.box.com/s/qutc86rujitb49geur8c ; this
appears to match my "Recent" doc list in the File Menu.
I don't know what causes that -- Microsoft Office apps don't do this,
but TextWrangler and GraphicConverter(for two examples) do. I don't
know whether it is related to R's misbehavior on my machine. All I
know for certain is that no other application I've tried ever hangs on
Open dialog boxes.
Any ideas?
Carl
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