Thanks Simon, I changed my mirror and the freeze on "Get List" reduced (although there was still a spinning pizza). Attempting an install definitely locked things up, but I can tell from my network activity that it was downloading and it did go ahead and install.
Thanks, I suppose expected behavior would be something communicating the issue and perhaps a progress bar; certainly I think avoiding a spinning pizza would be a good think, since that is usually very bad news :) Cheers, James On Oct 14, 2009, at 09:32, Simon Urbanek wrote: > (moving to the proper mailing list: R-SIG-Mac - this is not a bug so > far!) > > James, > > this look like your internet access is stalling R -- it's not really > R freezing but your internet. Try using a different mirror and/or > check your internet connection. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:45 , ja...@howison.name wrote: > >> Full_Name: James Howison >> Version: 2.9.2 >> OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 >> Submission from: (NULL) (128.2.222.163) >> >> >> For quite a while now I have been unable to use Package Manager to >> install >> programs. I get the spinning wheel and long lock ups. This >> happens when I hit, >> "get list", but that eventually returns, seemingly successfully. >> However it >> also happens when I try to install a package, the whole application >> locks up. I >> don't see anything in a log file; I took a sample using Activity >> Manager and the >> report after a force quit (which I didn't "send to apple") >> >> I'm able to build packages fine using install.packages and CMD >> INSTALL >> >> This behavior continued with a fresh R install (Oct 13, 2009) > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
