Charles, thanks a lot for the example. I have now fixed this issue in the current GUI. Please download and test the updated GUI tomorrow from http://r.research.att.com/
Thanks, Simon On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Charles Hebert wrote: >> If R is stuck in a long computation in C code that doesn't call >> R_ProcessEvents, we're helpless. There is no way to stop that code >> until it finishes. Even if you press <Esc> it may not help (just give >> you the beachball), because the event of you pressing <Esc> must >> first >> be processed so it can fire, > > Command : > > rnorm(10000) > then I press <Esc> > > reproduced the problem. It's not link to the computational time. > > Best regards, C. > > ~~ > > Mac Intel - OS 10.5.1 / 10.5.2 > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) > i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 > > locale: > fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > >> desire so to find out what R is doing. >> To do so, start a Terminal (in parallel to your unresponsive R) and >> type: >> gdb >> attach R >> >> That should get you into the R process that is spinning. Now you can >> issue >> bt >> to see where it really is. Very likely it will be somewhere is the >> package performing the computation. But if it's not, then we want to >> know. >> >> Anyway, I suspect that this is not really something we can do much >> about (in the current GUI). The new GUI 2.0 is running R in a >> separate >> thread, so it is always responsive despite R being busy, hence we can >> deal better with unresponsive R there. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Ken Knoblauch wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I notice with R 2.6.2 on a powerpc and on a MacBook Pro that if I >>> hit ESC to >>> annul running a line in the GUI, input hangs with the spinning beach >>> ball >>> for an indefinite period of time. I haven't tried to see how long >>> it will >>> hang, but >>> it is at least several minutes too long. Checking Force Quit >>> indicates that >>> R is not responding. >>> >>> On the power pc, w/ Tiger (but the same thing happens on my Intel >>> Mac w/ >>> Leopard) >>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) >>> 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] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> best, >>> >>> Ken > > _______________________________________________ > 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
