On Apr 10, 2013, at 07:19 , Julian Wells wrote:
> Many thanks to Peter and Brian for their help; it was indeed a permissions
problem; thanks also to Josh Paulson of the RStudio team for pointing me to
instructions for making the necessary changes.
>
> But at the risk of seeming not only ungrateful and pedantic, but also
off-topic, can I point out that all this strictly only answers part of my
question, which was "why **all of a sudden** I can't quit?"
(emphasis added).
>
Because **all of a sudden** something changed your permissions? Or, the problem
was there for a long time, but **all of a sudden** you forgot that
"no" cannot be abbreviated?
Really, it's anyone's guess, but you might give us more of a fighting
chance if you told us which were the changes that you had to make. I'm
pretty sure that the cause is external to R, though.
-pd
> I'm not conscious of changing permissions, so apparently this was
something that was done to me, rather than something that I did.
>
> All I know is that the issue seemed to crop up after I installed RStudio.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Julian Wells
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: r-help-request at r-project.org
>> Subject: R-help Digest, Vol 122, Issue 5
>> Date: 5 April 2013 11:00:08 GMT+01:00
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Reply-To: r-help at r-project.org
>
>
>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 23:58 , Julian Wells wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone explain why all of a sudden I can't quit?
>>
>> Almost certainly because you have a .Last function that fails. Either
get rid of it, or try q("n", runLast=FALSE).
>>
>> -pd
>
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>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:33:24 +0100
>> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Problem quitting
>> Message-ID: <515D6504.4070102 at stats.ox.ac.uk>
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>> On 04/04/2013 12:17, peter dalgaard wrote:
>>>
>>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 23:58 , Julian Wells wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone explain why all of a sudden I can't quit?
>>>
>>> Almost certainly because you have a .Last function that fails.
Either get rid of it, or try q("n", runLast=FALSE).
>>
>> I don't think so. This seems to be R.app on a Mac, and that has a
>> custom q() function. Now q("n") is never valid, but the
R.app version
>> does not tell you so.
>>
>> As it says, it is a permission issue when trying to save.
>
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