[Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

2012-11-19 Thread Keith
I am the maintainer of a Bioconductor package (affylmGUI) which uses tcltk. It freezes inconsistently on MS Windows, but not Mac or Unix. see details below. After considerable testing I have reduced the problem from a few thousand lines of code to 30 lines! If you paste the following lines o

Re: [Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

2012-11-19 Thread rcaloger
Hi Keith, I confirm that the problem of tcltk freezing window was reported by windows oneChannelGUI users. I also submitted the problem to R-bugs, but I could not manage to convince them that the problem is not due to the package. Cheers Raffaele On 11/19/12 6:05 AM, Keith wrote: I am the maint

Re: [Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

2012-11-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I see the freeze that you mentioned. I'm not likely to be able to track this down in the next while, so I'd suggest posting it to the R bug list. (If you can determine what makes it 100% reproducible, or shorten the script even more, that will make it easier to find and fix.) Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] Help page on '$': 'warnPartialMatchAttr' should be 'warnPartialMatchDollar'

2012-11-19 Thread Martin Maechler
Thank you, Suharto, you are right, there (on ?Extract ) has been a typo. I've fixed it and also added an example at the very end of that help page. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > Suharto Anggono > on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:48:12 -0800 writes: > http://stackoverflow.com/questio

Re: [Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

2012-11-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/11/2012 12:05 AM, Keith wrote: ... A Main Window pops up with "Main Window" in the Menu bar. Click on "Main Window" and the first (and only) item on the menu drops down and it is called "Normalize". Clicking this opens another windows entitled "Get Method". If there is a problem (it is i

Re: [Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

2012-11-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/11/2012 12:05 AM, Keith wrote: ... On MS Windows (I have tested on Win XP-32bit and Win7-64bit) the problem occurs in R-2.16.0, R-2.15.2, R-2.15.1,R-2.14.0. Of course, there is no 2.16.0 yet, but one more datapoint: I can't reproduce the problem with a current build of R-devel (i.e. th

Re: [Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

2012-11-19 Thread Keith
Thanks Duncan for testing. I have installed the latest binary I could find which is: R Under development (unstable) (2012-11-16 r61126) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) I still have a problem. I have shortened the code as you suggested - now it's only 6 lines! could you try this plea