From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Nov  4 15:56:20 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu Nov  4 15:56:23 2004
Subject: problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] one more
	Rcmdrproblem)
In-Reply-To: <418A309D.6020900@vu-wien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411041453590.31970-100000@gannet.stats>

This is known and we believe already fixed, so please try a beta of 2.0.1, 
from

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html

[BTW, the header is wrong, this is R-2.0.1 beta, not patch.]

Or just don't use Ctrl-C ....

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Thomas Ruf wrote:

> Dear all,
> I'd like to use Rcmdr for teaching purposes but still have problems
> trying to use it under Windows XP. Everything works fine up to several
> minutes but then Rcmdr and R completely crash the second I hit a button
> or key. This indeed looks like a problem with tcltk. It is not any
> particular button or key that causes the crash, but using Ctrl+C to copy
> something to the clipboard seem the most 'reliable' cause. I tried this
> on 4 different PCs all under Windows XP (home or prof.), SP1. I did
> download and reinstall R 2.0.0, RCmdr and required packages on Nov. 1,
> 2004, but that didn't help either. Are there any new insights into these 
> problems?
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas
> 
> 

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problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] one more Rcmdrproblem)
Prof Brian Ripley