R help - Apr 2003 - Keyboard problem using RWin 1.7.0

I just installed RWin 1.7.0 on an Intel box running Win2000 Pro.  If I try to 
paste from the clipboard to the console command line, the command(s) are 
executed, but the console then stops responding to the keyboard.  The only 
way I have found to continue is to use the mouse to shut down R.

Typing in the console works just fine; commands are executed, command-line 
editing is ok, source-ing files works, etc.  Everything works fine until I 
try to paste to the console, then the keyboard stops responding.  Any 
thoughts?

Dan Nordlund

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DJNordlund at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I just installed RWin 1.7.0 on an Intel box running Win2000 Pro.  If I try
to
> paste from the clipboard to the console command line, the command(s) are
> executed, but the console then stops responding to the keyboard.  The only
> way I have found to continue is to use the mouse to shut down R.
> 
> Typing in the console works just fine; commands are executed, command-line
> editing is ok, source-ing files works, etc.  Everything works fine until I
> try to paste to the console, then the keyboard stops responding.  Any
> thoughts?

Works for me on WinXP and WinNT4.0 with self-compiled copies (I guess
you are using the binaries from CRAN?).
- What exactly did you copy from the clipboard?
- Do you have any additional clipboard software running?

BTW: 
Duncan, browsing to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base ,
there seems to be a wrong link pointing to a non-existing file
"rw08.exe".

Uwe Ligges

My responses are interspersed below.

In a message dated 4/19/2003 4:07:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de writes:
>DJNordlund@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>I just installed RWin 1.7.0 on an Intel box running Win2000 Pro.  If I
try
to
>>paste from the clipboard to the console command line, the command(s) are
>>executed, but the console then stops responding to the keyboard.  The
only
>>way I have found to continue is to use the mouse to shut down R.
>>
>>Typing in the console works just fine; commands are executed,
command-line
>>editing is ok, source-ing files works, etc.  Everything works fine until
I
>>try to paste to the console, then the keyboard stops responding.  Any
>>thoughts?
>
>
>Works for me on WinXP and WinNT4.0 with self-compiled copies (I guess
>you are using the binaries from CRAN?).
It works for others also, so I suspect it is something having to do with my 
system, although I did not have any problems at least as far back as RWin 1.6
.0 on this system.  And yes, I am using the binaries from CRAN.
>- What exactly did you copy from the clipboard?
I initially copied a small function that I had written in a text editor.  The 
same textfile could be sourced without problem.  But in trying to determine 
where the problem was, I also tried just a simple "1+1", without the
quotes,
and that caused the same problem.
>- Do you have any additional clipboard software running?
No, I do not.  

In subsequent experimenting, it turns out that I can get back control of the 
keyboard without shutting down R.  If I do one of two things:
1.  press <control>-<ESC>, which brings up the Windows Start menu,
then
simply go back to R. The keyboard is freed up and every thing works fine.
2.  If I use the R menu to source some code, the keyboard starts to respond 
again.  (Just as an aside, when I do this, the output of the sourced code 
appears in the console window "above" the pasted text, pushing the
pasted
line of text down.  It is like the pasted text is stuck in a buffer, and the 
sourced text is executed ahead of it.)

Since others do not appear to be having this problem, and I have two simple 
work arounds, I will probably not pursue this much further.  Thanks for the 
input.

Dan Nordlund



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