On Dec 9, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Loren Engrav wrote: > My goodness > To preclude the Hide process seems rather not Mac > But am not sure I have the whatever to tell anyone whatever > You might on the other hand since it demolishes R.app >
It doesn't demolish it - R is still there. It just won't activate until the computation is done. As I said before, this is a bug (or inconsideration) in the package you are using, it should not block R completely in the first place. Cheers, Simon > > >> From: Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:11:40 -0500 >> To: Loren Engrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug >> >> >> On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Loren Engrav wrote: >> >>> This is rather vague but let me try please >>> >>> Am using MacOS 10.4.11 >>> >>> And sessionInfo() say >>>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) >>> powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1 >>> >>> locale: >>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] splines tools stats graphics grDevices utils >>> datasets >>> methods base >>> >>> other attached packages: >>> [1] hgu133plus2probe_2.0.0 hgu133plus2cdf_2.0.0 gcrma_2.10.0 >>> matchprobes_1.10.0 affy_1.16.0 >>> [6] preprocessCore_1.0.0 affyio_1.6.1 Biobase_1.16.1 >>> >>> And I enter >>>> Gibran81 <- justGCRMA() #81 .cel files >>> and since this takes a long time I click on R in menubar to hide it >>> and go to Entourage and Safari and Activity Monitor, etc >>> >>> Then click on R in the dock to return to R but cannot get back, >>> clicking on >>> R brings up Entourage or Safari or Activity Monitor >>> >>> But Activity Monitor say R is using 1.5 mb real RAM and 1.9 mb >>> virtual RAM >>> >>> It is like the Finder no longer knows where Mac R.app is >>> So I must force quit, start R over, and leave it alone until done >>> >>> I checked r-SIG-Mac Dec Nov Oct and see nothing on this >>> >> >> If a computation blocks R and doesn't allow it to process events, >> then >> R cannot respond to user requests. My guess would be that justGCRMA >> calls some C code that fails to let R process events periodically, so >> R.app can't do anything about it since R is single-threaded :/. >> Finder >> will know about R once the computation is done, so just let it finish >> (and in the meantime bug the author of the code to let R process >> events ;)). >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
