[R] R gui problem for windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Feng Li wrote:

> Dear R,
>
> I rare use the standard R-gui on Windows. Yesterday I tried the latest
> stable release on Windows 7 and XP and found one thing interesting. Assume

You were asked in the posting guide (which clearly you have ignored as 
you sent HTML) to be accurate about your version information.  We 
don't describe any version as 'latest stable'.

> currently I am running R code, say
>
>> example(plot)
>
> Then I click the "close window" button on the R main window. R asks me to
> save workspace image or not. Then I click "cancel". I suspect that my
> program "example(plot)" should continue but it is interrupted eventually.
>
> I would like to know the mechanism behind this and wonder whether this can
> be improved or not. It is a minor problem but I believe it can be very
> convenient for the window users especially when they are running time
> consuming simulations. What do you think?

How to run batch jobs on Windows is documented in the rw-FAQ (which 
the posting guide pointed you to).  Rgui (sic) is not intended for 
batch jobs, and like all other Windows GUIs I have ever seen, closing 
the main windows terminates the process.

>
>
> Best,
>
> Feng
>
> -- 
> Feng Li
> Department of Statistics
> Stockholm University
> 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> http://feng.li/
>
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

That does mean you ....

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