The only suggestion I have, and it's a weak one, would be to try
starting R from the command line in an xterm window, instead of
Terminal, and see if it's stable there.
I've used R just a little bit on a Snow Leopard machine and have not
experienced what you describe -- but I do work entirely within X11,
not in what I would call a hybrid environment of Terminal plus X
windows.
-Don
At 9:53 AM +1300 2/8/10, Rolf Turner wrote:
I recently upgraded from a fairly ancient Tiger OSX to the latest
Snow Leopard (10.6.2).
I've got most of the teething problems settled, but there is one
really annoying phenomenon that I cannot fathom.
When I open an X11 window for R graphics, it will ***sometimes***
refuse to let me move the pointer over the window!!! I.e. if I
move the pointer over the window, the window jumps to another
part of the screen. If I chase it there, it jumps again. This
precludes raising or moving the window.
The problem is that this is an intermittent fault. Sometimes it
will happen, and sometimes it won't. (Once it starts happening,
it won't quit, however.) Makes it very hard to diagnose
or trace the fault.
Has anybody else ever encountered anything like this? Has anyone
any idea what's causing this phenomenon, or how I could trace it
down and rectify the problem?
Grateful for any suggestions.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. I start R from the command line in a terminal window; I don't
use the R GUI.
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
locale:
[1] en_NZ.UTF-8/en_NZ.UTF-8/C/C/en_NZ.UTF-8/en_NZ.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] datasets utils stats graphics grDevices methods base
other attached packages:
[1] misc_0.0-12 fortunes_1.3-7 MASS_7.3-4
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