[R] RGUI crash when opening script in XP Home enviroment

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> This is not the place to report reproducible faults: please see the
> posting guide and send a complete bug report to the appropriate place.
> (Let alone three followups from Duncan Mackay!)
>
> However, as I don't know what the `open file button' is, I cannot
> reproduce it.  Is this MDI or SDI mode, and if the former is this using
> the icon on the toolbar, whose tooltip says it is `open script'?
>                                                         ^^^^^^
> What did you expect that to do?
>
> Please make clear in your report if this one or two problems, i.e. is the 
> `not closing completely' only after the error?
>
> This looks like yet another problem caused by adding the script editor, since 
> prior to that there was pager toolbar.

Yes, that was it (it had been told the pager was an editor).  Now fixed in 
R-patched and R-devel.

> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> Knut Krueger schrieb:
>> 
>>> If  there is a helpfile open (f.e ?glm) and it is the top window, then
>>> an exception error occurs (closing RGUI)
>>> when I hit the open file button.
>>> If the helpfile is not the top window (of the RGUI) I am able to open a
>>> new script without any error.
>>> The RGUI is not closing complete there is a blank screen left which I
>>> have to close with the X Button or Taskmanager
>>> 
>>> Windows XP Home - German Version updates installed.
>>> 
>>> R-Version 2.1.0
>>> 
>>> I
>>> 
>> And it is the same problem with the 2.1.1 patched version
>> http://www.cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html
>> 
>> with regards
>> Knut Krueger
>> http://www.biostatistic.de
>> 
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595