Re: [Rd] best practice for packages using mclapply to avoid tcltk

2013-02-06 Thread peter dalgaard
On Feb 6, 2013, at 10:29 , Martin Maechler wrote: >> "PJ" == Paul Johnson >>on Tue, 5 Feb 2013 22:25:01 -0600 writes: > >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Simon Urbanek >> wrote: >>> As Peter pointed out earlier, this is better addressed by >>> disabling the Tcl/Tk event loop in fo

Re: [Rd] best practice for packages using mclapply to avoid tcltk

2013-02-06 Thread Martin Maechler
> "PJ" == Paul Johnson > on Tue, 5 Feb 2013 22:25:01 -0600 writes: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: >> As Peter pointed out earlier, this is better addressed by >> disabling the Tcl/Tk event loop in forked processes. >> > Dear Simon:

Re: [Rd] best practice for packages using mclapply to avoid tcltk

2013-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > As Peter pointed out earlier, this is better addressed by disabling the > Tcl/Tk event loop in forked processes. > Dear Simon: I don't understand. Can you please try to say it again? I find Peter's comment (on Jan 3, 2013, thread title: we

Re: [Rd] best practice for packages using mclapply to avoid tcltk

2013-02-03 Thread Matt Blackwell
Hi Simon, Sorry to be a bother, but is "disabling the Tcl/Tk event loop in the forked processes" something that a package maintainer should do? If so, how? Again, apologies if I've missed something obvious. I maintain a package (Amelia) that has an optional tcltk GUI that folks can use and we are

Re: [Rd] best practice for packages using mclapply to avoid tcltk

2013-02-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
As Peter pointed out earlier, this is better addressed by disabling the Tcl/Tk event loop in forked processes. Cheers, Simon On Feb 2, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Dear R-devel friends: > > I'm back to bother you again about the conflict between mclapply and > tcltk. I've been > mon