(a) Sorry, that was my first post. I'll be sure to plain text from here on.
(b) Hmm. "It is not intended that there be interaction with the user during
startup code. Attempting to do so can crash the R process, especially so prior
to R 3.0.2." I had been using this with <3.0.1. with no problems or error
messages at all. What changed? If I want to risk crashing, is there a
workaround?
Thanks much -
Brian
Brian Alexander Chalfant
Research Assistant & PhD student
University of Pittsburgh
www.pitt.edu/~bac84
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From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: Brian Chalfant <bchalf...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [R] non-interactive error in .First function
Suggestions:
a) Don't post in HTML format... your code appears corrupt.
b) Don't do this. Read the Note in ?.First
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Brian Chalfant wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Long-time user, first-time poster.
>
> I added a .First function to my Rprofile.site file to check for updates,
> clean the console, and put some fun quotes on startup.? This used to work
> without error.? I hadn't used R (which I usually play with in RStudio) in a
> few weeks, but when I started up recently and updated (R 3.1.0+ RStudio v
> 0.98.945),I got a couple error messages.? For context, here is my .First
> function:
>
> .First <- function(){
> ??? suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(installr))
> ??? library(installr)
> ??? library(stats)
> ??? old.packages = installed.packages()[,1]
> ??? save(old.packages,
> file="C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/installedPackages.Rdata")
> ??? # load("C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/installedPackages.Rdata")
> ??? # pull.packages = installed.packages()[,1]
> ??? # for (i in setdiff(old.packages, pull.packages))
> ??? # install.packages(i)
> ??? updateR()
> ??? cat("\014")
> ??? if (runif(1,0,1)>0.5) {
> ????? cat("Stately, plump Buck Mulligan...")
> ??? } else cat("as though\nyou were creating\na mathematical sandwich")
> ? }
>
>
> I was getting an error message about installr, but I added the suppress...
> function as suggested in that error message, which worked like a gem.?
> However, I can't quite figure out how to address the other error message.?
> Here it is:
>
> Error installing package: Error in winDialog(type = "ok", message =
> message_text) : winDialog() cannot be used non-interactively
> Calls: .First -> updateR -> check.for.updates.R -> winDialog
> Execution halted
> I'm not sure what's going on here, but I'm guessing R runs .First functions
> in non-interactive mode.? I ham-handedly tried adding an > interactive=T line
> to the .First function, but this didn't work.
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> =)? Brian
> ?
> Brian Alexander Chalfant
> Research Assistant & PhD student
> University of Pittsburgh
> www.pitt.edu/~bac84
> ba...@pitt.edu
> 724.984.7758
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>
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