R help - Nov 2005 - R on Windows XP x64

Hi,

I am running R 2.2.0 on the Windows XP x64. The mechanism of error hanlder
seems different. It will take a very long time to pop up a error message
diaglog box, even when some simple errors happen such as "Syntax
error" or
"object xxxx not found". Does anybody have the similar experience?
Thanks
a lot.

BTW: everything works fine under 32-bit Windows XP, error messages come
out immediately.

Feng

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Feng Tai wrote:
> I am running R 2.2.0 on the Windows XP x64. The mechanism of error hanlder
> seems different. It will take a very long time to pop up a error message
> diaglog box, even when some simple errors happen such as "Syntax
error" or
> "object xxxx not found". Does anybody have the similar
experience? Thanks
> a lot.
R does not use dialog boxes for such error messages: it reports them in 
the console (RGui) or on the terminal (Rterm).

So it seems there is something you are not telling us about what you are 
doing.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

I checked again, the dialog box pops up after loading package "pamr".
Thanks a lot!!

Feng
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Feng Tai wrote:
>
> > I am running R 2.2.0 on the Windows XP x64. The mechanism of error
hanlder
> > seems different. It will take a very long time to pop up a error
message
> > diaglog box, even when some simple errors happen such as "Syntax
error" or
> > "object xxxx not found". Does anybody have the similar
experience? Thanks
> > a lot.
>
> R does not use dialog boxes for such error messages: it reports them in
> the console (RGui) or on the terminal (Rterm).
>
> So it seems there is something you are not telling us about what you are
> doing.
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>

In "pamr", I found that they wrote their own error handler function
and
set as .Options$error. I set .Options$error back to NULL, problem solved.
Thanks again.

Feng

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Feng Tai wrote:
>
> > I am running R 2.2.0 on the Windows XP x64. The mechanism of error
hanlder
> > seems different. It will take a very long time to pop up a error
message
> > diaglog box, even when some simple errors happen such as "Syntax
error" or
> > "object xxxx not found". Does anybody have the similar
experience? Thanks
> > a lot.
>
> R does not use dialog boxes for such error messages: it reports them in
> the console (RGui) or on the terminal (Rterm).
>
> So it seems there is something you are not telling us about what you are
> doing.
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>