R help - Jun 2007 - Windows vista's early terminate Rgui execution

Hi,I have a frustrating problem from vista that I wonder if anyone has come
across the same problem. I wrote a script that involves long computational time
(although, during the calculation, it spits out text on the gui to notify me the
progress of the calculation periodically). Windows vista always stopped my
calculation and claimed that 'Rgui is stop-working. Windows is checking for
solution.' And when I looked into task manager, windows already stopped my
Rgui process. I am quite disappointed with this. I would really appreciate if
anyone finds a solution to go around this windows vista problem? Particularly,
how to turn off this feature in vista? Any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you!- adschai

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At 03:28 PM 6/10/2007, adschai at optonline.net wrote:
>Hi,I have a frustrating problem from vista that I wonder if anyone 
>has come across the same problem. I wrote a script that involves 
>long computational time (although, during the calculation, it spits 
>out text on the gui to notify me the progress of the calculation 
>periodically). Windows vista always stopped my calculation and 
>claimed that 'Rgui is stop-working. Windows is checking for 
>solution.' And when I looked into task manager, windows already 
>stopped my Rgui process. I am quite disappointed with this. I would 
>really appreciate if anyone finds a solution to go around this 
>windows vista problem? Particularly, how to turn off this feature in 
>vista? Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you!- adschai
You probably need to contact Vista periodically so it knows you are awake.

Just include a line that does a call to Vista that doesn't do output, such
as

useless <- dir()

placed in some outer loop that satisfies the "drop dead" time between
calls.

Alternatively, you can attempt to find out how to change the registry 
entry corresponding to the wait time and increase it to a value you 
can live with.

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