Thank for that. Makes sense. Odd thing is I never noticed this behavior before El Cap. In Mavericks, would see the small grey spinning progress indicator which was much more reassuring that things were as they should be.
Cheers Charles Charles DiMaggio, PhD, MPH Professor of Surgery and Population Health Director of Injury Research New York University School of Medicine Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care Bellevue Hospital Center 462 First Avenue, NBV 15 New York, NY 10016-9196 charles.dimag...@nyumc.org Office: 212.263.3202 Direct: 516.308.6426 > On May 6, 2016, at 7:30 AM, c...@witthoft.com wrote: > > When an executable is performing a processor-intensive task without any > "hooks" for interrupts, the "not responding" status is normal, as is > the pinwheel -- which is doing what it's supposed to; it's just that > none of us like it when it spins for too long. > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 18:16:17 -0400 > From: Charles DiMaggio <charles.dimag...@gmail.com> > To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org > Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.2.2 Hangs Reading Files in El Capitan > [Solved] > Message-ID: <fce03872-d0eb-46c7-81f1-8c7e641bd...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Been a while, but wanted to close the page on a previous post describing > R hanging on readRDS() and load() for largish (say 500MB or larger) > files. Tried again with recent release (3.3.0). Am able to read in > large files under El Cap. While the file is reading in, I get a > disconcerting spinning pinwheel of death and a check under Force Quit > reports R is not responding. But if I wait it out, it eventually reads > in. Odd. But I can live with it. > > Cheers > > Charles > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
