On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/22/2005 4:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In Windows, if a download is interrupted (by switching to the console >> window and hitting ESC), the download status dialog can be left >> onscreen, with no apparent way to get rid of it (other than stopping and >> restarting R). >> >> To duplicate: >> >> Run this: >> >> a <- available.packages() >> download.packages(a, 'c:/temp') >> >> Then, during a particularly long download, switch to the console window >> and hit ESC. >> >> This affects R-devel, as well as 2.1.1. > > Now fixed in R-devel and R-patched. I also set it so the dialog retains > its position if you move it out of the way; it was pretty irritating to > have it pop up in the middle of the screen every time in a multiple file > download.
I don't think you can do simultaneous downloads, and is not the `it' different progress bar windows? Do you mean that the next instance of a progress bar will come up where the last one was? That seems not the standard ergonomics on GUI systems, in which a new window is treated as a new window and not the same as an old one. I hate it when Windows puts Firefox up where I dragged the last Firefox window (or even where another user dragged it). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
