Neil French Collier
2016-Apr-11 16:37 UTC
[Rd] R not responding (must force quit) when saving graphic to PDF (bug?)
Dear colleagues, I wish to report a problem I encounter when trying to save a graphic to file. When I produce a graphic and try to save it R becomes unresponsive and I must force quit, and then restart R. The problem occurs when I try to overwrite an existing graphic: for example when I made changes to the graphic and want to save the graphic using the original file name. It only happens when I use the menus to save files, not using script. It doesn't happen when I save it as a new file. So, like this: 1. Make the graphic 2. Click File -> Save -> click on existing file name 3. Colour wheel appears and R is unresponsive. Reproducible example: x <- seq(1,10) y <- x^2 plot(x,y, type="l") # Save as new file, all fine. #Change plot and save as old plot file name: plot(x,y, type="l", col=2) # Click File -> Save # 'Save quartz to PDF file' box opens # Click on existing file name # Colour wheel Here is the sessionInfo(): R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) locale: [1] 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 I'm not sure if this is worthy of reporting but I was encouraged to submit a report. It doesn't really make a huge impact on my workflow, but it can be annoying. -- Cheers, Neil Neil French Collier, PhD Faculty of Sustainability Leuphana University L?neburg Rotenbleicher Weg 67 21335 Lueneburg Germany Twitter: @foodsecbio email: collier at leuphana.de Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=xVdc-dsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> Ideas for Sustainability <https://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Wolfgang Huber
2016-Apr-11 18:41 UTC
[Rd] R not responding (must force quit) when saving graphic to PDF (bug?)
Dear Neil Have you tried with completely uninstalling your R, and reinstalling a more recent version (e.g. 3.2.4 right now). And then the same with your operating system - OS X is currently at 10.11.4. There is likely not much interest (or benefit) in chasing such things in obsolete versions. And I think R-help would be the more appropriate place for this kind of question. Wolfgang> On Apr 11, 2016, at 18:37 GMT+2, Neil French Collier <neilandertal at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > I wish to report a problem I encounter when trying to save a graphic to > file. When I produce a graphic and try to save it R becomes unresponsive > and I must force quit, and then restart R. The problem occurs when I try to > overwrite an existing graphic: for example when I made changes to the > graphic and want to save the graphic using the original file name. It only > happens when I use the menus to save files, not using script. It doesn't > happen when I save it as a new file. So, like this: > > 1. Make the graphic > 2. Click File -> Save -> click on existing file name > 3. Colour wheel appears and R is unresponsive. > > Reproducible example: > > x <- seq(1,10) > y <- x^2 > plot(x,y, type="l") # Save as new file, all fine. > > #Change plot and save as old plot file name: > > plot(x,y, type="l", col=2) > > # Click File -> Save > # 'Save quartz to PDF file' box opens > # Click on existing file name > # Colour wheel > > Here is the sessionInfo(): > > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) > Running under: OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) > > locale: > [1] 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 > > I'm not sure if this is worthy of reporting but I was encouraged to submit > a report. It doesn't really make a huge impact on my workflow, but it can > be annoying. > > -- > Cheers, > > Neil > > Neil French Collier, PhD > Faculty of Sustainability > Leuphana University L?neburg > Rotenbleicher Weg 67 > 21335 Lueneburg > Germany > > Twitter: @foodsecbio > email: collier at leuphana.de > Google Scholar > <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=xVdc-dsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> > Ideas for Sustainability <https://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-develWolfgang Wolfgang Huber Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist Genome Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany wolfgang.huber at embl.de http://www.huber.embl.de
Neil French Collier
2016-Apr-11 21:35 UTC
[Rd] R not responding (must force quit) when saving graphic to PDF (bug?)
Dear Wolfgang, Thanks for your response. No, I haven't tried doing the complete reinstallation as you suggest. If I recall correctly, this has happened on previous occasions but like I said in my email it's not all that disruptive to my workflow. It's more like a 'first world problem'. I was encouraged to submit the query because I had correspondence with someone involved with R development: "this shouldn't be happening" was the advice I received. I use R a lot but I'm not deeply knowledgable about it's inner workings. To be frank, I really don't care if this is resolved. I was just trying to help the R development group after receiving advice that it might be important. Again, thanks for your help. Cheers Neil On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> wrote:> Dear Neil > > Have you tried with completely uninstalling your R, and reinstalling a > more recent version (e.g. 3.2.4 right now). > And then the same with your operating system - OS X is currently at > 10.11.4. > There is likely not much interest (or benefit) in chasing such things in > obsolete versions. > > And I think R-help would be the more appropriate place for this kind of > question. > Wolfgang > > > On Apr 11, 2016, at 18:37 GMT+2, Neil French Collier < > neilandertal at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > I wish to report a problem I encounter when trying to save a graphic to > > file. When I produce a graphic and try to save it R becomes unresponsive > > and I must force quit, and then restart R. The problem occurs when I try > to > > overwrite an existing graphic: for example when I made changes to the > > graphic and want to save the graphic using the original file name. It > only > > happens when I use the menus to save files, not using script. It doesn't > > happen when I save it as a new file. So, like this: > > > > 1. Make the graphic > > 2. Click File -> Save -> click on existing file name > > 3. Colour wheel appears and R is unresponsive. > > > > Reproducible example: > > > > x <- seq(1,10) > > y <- x^2 > > plot(x,y, type="l") # Save as new file, all fine. > > > > #Change plot and save as old plot file name: > > > > plot(x,y, type="l", col=2) > > > > # Click File -> Save > > # 'Save quartz to PDF file' box opens > > # Click on existing file name > > # Colour wheel > > > > Here is the sessionInfo(): > > > > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) > > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) > > Running under: OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) > > > > locale: > > [1] 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 > > > > I'm not sure if this is worthy of reporting but I was encouraged to > submit > > a report. It doesn't really make a huge impact on my workflow, but it can > > be annoying. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > Neil > > > > Neil French Collier, PhD > > Faculty of Sustainability > > Leuphana University L?neburg > > Rotenbleicher Weg 67 > > 21335 Lueneburg > > Germany > > > > Twitter: @foodsecbio > > email: collier at leuphana.de > > Google Scholar > > < > https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=xVdc-dsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate > > > > Ideas for Sustainability <https://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > Wolfgang > > Wolfgang Huber > Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist > Genome Biology Unit > European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) > Heidelberg, Germany > > wolfgang.huber at embl.de > http://www.huber.embl.de > > > > > > > > > >-- Cheers, Neil Neil French Collier, PhD Faculty of Sustainability Leuphana University L?neburg Rotenbleicher Weg 67 21335 Lueneburg Germany Twitter: @foodsecbio email: collier at leuphana.de Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=xVdc-dsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> Ideas for Sustainability <https://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]