R help - Feb 2003 - Rgui crash and Macro Magic

A consistent Rgui crash (1062 on XP) I was experiencing
seemed initially to be solved by following  R Win FAQ 2.12:
placing a generic microsoft msvcrt.exe in rw1062\bin.

But the crash problem quickly reappeared.
Exiting Macro Magic, a keyboard macro utility,
did solve the problem, apparently permanently
according to my little "crossover design" study.
I discovered this solution thanks to previous r-help messages
about the dangers of keyboard macro programs.


Roger Day
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biostatistics
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
University of Pittsburgh Center for Biomedical Informatics Affiliated
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You're welcome!

Here's some more:

this morning, even though the Macro Magic icon was not
displayed on the process section of the taskbar,
R was crashing again.
However, I found  Macro.exe in the Task Manager Processes tab.
Killed it, and then R worked fine.
Somehow, Macro Magic had reloaded, but invisibly this time.


-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:dmurdoch at pair.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:43 AM
To: Day, Roger
Subject: Re: [R] Rgui crash and Macro Magic


On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 22:03:50 -0500, you wrote:
>A consistent Rgui crash (1062 on XP) I was experiencing
>seemed initially to be solved by following  R Win FAQ 2.12: placing a 
>generic microsoft msvcrt.exe in rw1062\bin.
>
>But the crash problem quickly reappeared.
>Exiting Macro Magic, a keyboard macro utility,
>did solve the problem, apparently permanently
>according to my little "crossover design" study.
>I discovered this solution thanks to previous r-help messages about the
>dangers of keyboard macro programs.
>
Thanks for posting that.

Duncan Murdoch