On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Elizabeth Purdom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Lately on my mac OS X (snowleopard) computer, when I run the Rgui it is
> freezing because of its function lookup feature.
>
> Specifically, as I type at the command line, there is a feature where if I
> type "print(" it shows at the bottom the arguments for the print function.
> The problem is when I type a typo (my frequent typo is "heaD(") it goes to
> look this up and completely freezes my Rgui and I have to force quit the
> program. Of course the feature does it as I type, so it doesn't matter if I
> press the backspace to fix it, etc. It's too late. I don't remember it doing
> this before, but now it happens many times a day -- I don't know what has
> changed. It also doesn't do it all the time; I think it is related to having
> set options(error=recover). This is because it is producing an error that it
> can't find heaD as a function.
>
I doubt it -- partly because I cannot reproduce it and partly because it uses
try(..., silent=TRUE) so that the error setting doesn't matter.
Please send me the crash report when it happens so we can have a closer look.
Also please try the latest version of R.
Also FWIW I see multicore in your list of packages - you cannot use multicore
from the GUI (see ?multicore).
Thanks,
Simon
> Is there a way to turn off this feature? Failing that, some work around? Its
> not responding to escape/ctrl-c etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth Purdom
>
> #this is my session info, though clearly not from when I actually had the
> error, because R completely crashes and I can not regain control of the
> program
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] multicore_0.1-3 Rsamtools_1.0.8 Biostrings_2.16.9
> GenomicFeatures_1.0.10 GenomicRanges_1.0.9 IRanges_1.6.17
> [7] XML_3.1-1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] Biobase_2.8.0 biomaRt_2.4.0 BSgenome_1.16.5 DBI_0.2-5
> RCurl_1.4-2 RSQLite_0.9-2 rtracklayer_1.8.1
>
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