menu interrupt lockup of R on NT

A.J. Rossini rossini at blindglobe.net
Tue Jan 30 05:38:18 CET 2001


Under Unix, C-g followed by  C-c C-c will usually stop this.  Does it
work under Microsoft?

>>>>> "SM" == S McClatchie <s.mcclatchie at niwa.cri.nz> writes:


    SM> Colleagues Here is an outline of a perceived problem:

    SM> Using R with the ESS front end on a PC (see specs below):

    SM> I had returned a large object (about 15,000 rows, 3 columns)
    SM> from a function and it was scrolling on the screen. I tried to
    SM> interrupt the scrolling using the menu Signals/ Break. The
    SM> result was a sreen lockup of both the emacs ESS windows and
    SM> the R graphics window. The problem is repeatable on my system.

    SM> Any suggestions about how to avoid such a lockup (apart from
    SM> simply not doing this sort of scrolling to the screen)?

    SM> ---------------------------------- System info: R version
    SM> rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4

    SM> ----------------------------------

    SM> Help will be appreciated.

    SM> Thanks

    SM> Sam

    SM> Sam McClatchie, Research scientist (fisheries
    SM> acoustics)))))))))) NIWA (National Institute of Water &
    SM> Atmospheric Research Ltd) PO Box 14 901, Kilbirnie,
    SM> Wellington, New Zealand s.mcclatchie at niwa.cri.nz

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