Dear Simon, I see that our messages have crossed.
Thanks for attending to the problem. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: January-09-09 6:32 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problems with the data editor > > John, > > I have fixed the empty dataset issue and few other borderline cases, > so please try the updated R.app GUI (either from SVN or wait until > it's available again). > > However, there are apparently still some issues in the UI that I was > not able track down since they occur only sparsely and randomly all > over the place in internals of the Cocoa event handling when deleting > multiple columns at once. They don't crash in our R.app code, so it's > extremely difficult to trace. All I can say is don't delete multiple > columns at once after busy adding/deleting ;). We really need a > rewrite here ... > > Thanks, > Simon > > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:07 PM, John Fox wrote: > > > Dear list members, > > > > I thought that I recalled a recent posting reporting a problem with > > the R > > data editor, but I haven't been able to locate the message in the list > > archive. > > > > In any event, I can reliably cause the R.app data editor either to > > hang or > > to produce errors in a couple of ways, the first of which is easier to > > describe (the X11 data editor seems more robust, if limited in its > > capabilities): > > > > (1) Edit an empty data frame (which works in the Windows and X11 data > > editors): edit(as.data.frame(NULL)). > > > > (2) Edit any data frame "vigorously," adding a deleting rows and > > columns > > repeatedly. E.g., library(car); edit(Prestige). > > > > I'm using R 2.8.1 installed from the binary on CRAN under OS X > > 10.5.5 on a > > MacBook. > > > > I wonder whether anyone else has observed these problems or has an > > idea > > about how to fix them. > > > > (I'm copying Brian Ripley since we exchanged emails about this issue > > earlier > > today.) > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > ------------------------------ > > John Fox, Professor > > Department of Sociology > > McMaster University > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
