richcalaway at revolution-computing.com
2009-Aug-04 22:05 UTC
[Rd] Alt-F4 leaves RGUI console in wait state when closing some dialog boxes (PR#13870)
Full_Name: Rich Calaway Version: R 2.7.2; R 2.10.0 r48968 2009-07-21 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, Windows XP SP3 Submission from: (NULL) (65.47.30.18) Various dialog boxes have different responses to Alt-F4; all of those launched from the File menu behave correctly--the dialog box closes and the R Console window responds to input. In the Edit menu, when you select Data editor..., and use Alt+F4 to try to close the dialog box that prompts for the name of a matrix or data frame, the dialog box closes, the R Console seems unresponsive, but the cursor does not change, and all menu items are available. If you do the following, however, you see that all is not well. Choose New script from the File menu, then enter the following lines: search() ls() If you then try to Run all from the Edit menu, nothing appears to happen. Now choose Data editor... again, and type in a name, such as state.x77. The data editor opens, and all of the commands you tried to run in the interim now go through the R Console. When you exit the data editor, it opens again with the same data set. When you exit a second time, you should be back to normal. In the Packages menu, the Load package..., Set CRAN mirror..., Select Repositories..., and Install packages... dialog boxes all behave the same way--if you press Alt+F4 after opening these dialog boxes, the dialog box closes, the cursor becomes a wait cursor while over the R Console, and clicking Stop returns you to the R prompt.