Dear all, in using bug.report() on NT, I noticed what I find is an unusual default behaviour; namely that R stays frozen until the report is completed. Here's how to change it, and below, a question as to how others feel.> -----Original Message----- > From: Guido Masarotto [mailto:guido at hal.stat.unipd.it][snip]> In the actual Windows implementation of bug.report, R waits > for the editor > to complete. This is also the Unix behaviour. > If you don't like it, you should edit the function changing the > the 'system' call towards the end from > system(paste(.Options$editor, file)) > to > system(paste(.Options$editor, file), wait=FALSE) >[snip]> > Any opinion on making this the default behaviour for next releases ? >Yes, to be honest I would expect/prefer the editor to be open in a `background mode' window whether I was on NT or X11. Certainly to my mind I would expect that email or editor window to wait while I went back to R, reproduced error messages etc and pasted them into it. With the near system independence the developers have worked so hard on, the simple change to wait=F would be just as simple on unix? Still, perhaps others feel equally strongly the other way? Simon -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Peter Dalgaard BSA
1999-Jun-04 09:27 UTC
[R] FW: very minor Rgui problem in rw0641 (PR#204)
Simon Fear <fears at roycastle.liv.ac.uk> writes:> With the near system independence the developers have worked so hard on, > the simple change to wait=F would be just as simple on unix? > > Still, perhaps others feel equally strongly the other way?I don't think it is a problem to start the editor in the background. However, *sending* the report is done by the bug.report function after editing. If you background the editor, you'd be sending the report before writing it... On crippled OS's we cannot figure out how to send mail, so this doesn't happen. What one really needs is a threaded version of R, but that is somewhat into the future... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._