[ESS] Xemacs/ESS crash with R-help

[James W. MacDonald]

I should add that loading the tcltk package first will get the empty 
'Choose one' window with the current versions of Xemacs/ESS.

Best,

Jim

James MacDonald wrote:
> A search for this problem didn't result in any hits, but I still wonder
> if it is a known problem. This is on Windows XP using R-2.4.0 or
> R-2.5.0devel, Xemacs-21.4.19, and ESS-5.3.3 (I have all other Xemacs
> packages installed from the sumo tarball as well).
> 
> With R-2.4.0 and greater (possibly earlier versions as well?) if one
> tries to open a help page for a function that exists in more than one
> package, if using the RGui, a window pops up querying the end user which
> function help they want. I believe in earlier versions you just got the
> 'first one' and a listing of other packages that had the same function.
> 
> Anyway, when I do the same running R under Xemacs/ESS, it just
> completely locks up and I have to use the Windows Task Manager to kill
> the process. 
> 
> This is different from what I saw with Xemacs-21.4.13 and an earlier
> version of ESS, maybe 5.3.1. With the earlier versions, I would get a
> window with the header 'Choose one', but nothing else in the window.
> This would also require me to kill the process.
> 
> The easiest way I know for someone to reproduce this is as follows (at
> an R prompt):
> 
> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite("GOstats")
> library(GOstats)
> ?hyperGTable
> 
> I would imagine any other duplicated function will do the same, but I
> don't know one off the top of my head right now.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
> Biostatistician
> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
> University of Michigan Cancer Center
> 1500 E. Medical Center Drive
> 7410 CCGC
> Ann Arbor MI 48109
> 734-647-5623
> 
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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
734-647-5623


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