Thank you, I understand Demolish may be too strong since R is till there in the Activity Monitor
So then as I understand, if the Finder "loses" R.app, if I wait long enough till the process ends, the Finder will find R.app again I will do that Thank you -- Loren Engrav Univ Washington Seattle > From: Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:06:14 -0500 > To: Loren Engrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug > > > 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
