R help - Jun 2013 - R session freezes when I try to save a new script

All:


Recently my R session freezes when I try to open a file or save a new script
after I have run existing scripts.  The session freezes so that I can no longer
click on any windows within the R session -- including other scripts that are
open or the R console.  (I hear the "ding" sound when I try to click
on anything.)  I have looked at the Task Manager on the computer and R is still
running (and is still responsive according to the Task Manager), but I cannot do
anything within R.  I have tried pressing Esc and that does not help.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  I am using a 32 bit Windows 7
computer with 4gb ram and 250gb hard drive.


Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


~Amanda Ferguson

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It would probably help if you posted your sessionInfo() 

Just before everything freezes issue the command
sessionInfor()
copy the output and paste it into an email.



John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anferg806 at aol.com
> Sent: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:52:03 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: [R] R session freezes when I try to save a new script
> 
> All:
> 
> 
> Recently my R session freezes when I try to open a file or save a new
> script after I have run existing scripts.  The session freezes so that I
> can no longer click on any windows within the R session -- including
> other scripts that are open or the R console.  (I hear the "ding"
sound
> when I try to click on anything.)  I have looked at the Task Manager on
> the computer and R is still running (and is still responsive according to
> the Task Manager), but I cannot do anything within R.  I have tried
> pressing Esc and that does not help.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  I am using a 32 bit
> Windows 7 computer with 4gb ram and 250gb hard drive.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> 
> 
> ~Amanda Ferguson
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
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You will probably need to read the Posting Guide and follow its recommendations
to get a constructive response. Things like posting in text instead of HTML and
providing the output of sessionInfo go a long way toward speeding up the
troubleshooting process.

You can also begin the process of identifying what your in-memory objects look
like by stopping your script just before you run the function or click on a menu
that hangs, and providing to us the output of the ls() function in your next
email. You may have redefined an object with an important name. Alternatively,
you may have a windows permissions issue (which would be outside the scope of
this mailing list.

Ideally you would generate a self- contained reproducible example, but if that
is not possible then you will have to live with guesses as responses. (The dump
or dput functions may let you share the problematic memory configuration.)
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anferg806 at aol.com wrote:
>All:
>
>
>Recently my R session freezes when I try to open a file or save a new
>script after I have run existing scripts.  The session freezes so that
>I can no longer click on any windows within the R session -- including
>other scripts that are open or the R console.  (I hear the "ding"
sound
>when I try to click on anything.)  I have looked at the Task Manager on
>the computer and R is still running (and is still responsive according
>to the Task Manager), but I cannot do anything within R.  I have tried
>pressing Esc and that does not help.
>
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  I am using a 32 bit
>Windows 7 computer with 4gb ram and 250gb hard drive.
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
>
>~Amanda Ferguson
>
>	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

On 13-06-14 10:52 AM, anferg806 at aol.com wrote:
> All:
>
>
> Recently my R session freezes when I try to open a file or save a new
script after I have run existing scripts.  The session freezes so that I can no
longer click on any windows within the R session -- including other scripts that
are open or the R console.  (I hear the "ding" sound when I try to
click on anything.)  I have looked at the Task Manager on the computer and R is
still running (and is still responsive according to the Task Manager), but I
cannot do anything within R.  I have tried pressing Esc and that does not help.
>
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  I am using a 32 bit Windows
7 computer with 4gb ram and 250gb hard drive.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
I have sometimes seen symptoms like that when an open file dialog gets 
hidden behind another window.  R is waiting for the dialog to complete, 
but since it is hidden, it never does.  Generally it pops up eventually; 
I'm not sure why it is allowed to be hidden at all.

Duncan Murdoch