Hi Stephen, Does the problem still occur if you connect remotely to your computer from a different computer? e.g. via remote desktop?
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:50 PM Stephen Hartley < stephen.hartley....@gmail.com> wrote: > So I've got an odd problem that I can't seem to nail down, and I'm not > totally sure even where I should go to ask about it. Hopefully this mailing > list is acceptable, and please do let me know if not. > > I'm using the "Rgui.exe" interface for R in windows 10. I've used this for > more than a decade now with no problems, and for at least a year on this > computer specifically. But now, when I click "Run line or selection" or > equivalently use CTRL+R, it only sometimes runs the selection. > Specifically: the FIRST time I attempt to run any given selection, it > > This issue only appears when I drag to select a snippet of text. It works > fine when I simply click on a line without selecting it. However, if I drag > and select a region of code and hit the command, the selection stops being > selected but it does not run the code. If I then drag and select the exact > same code a second time and do it again, it runs normally. If instead of > running the same code again I attempt to select different code, it once > again does not run. > > Here's the really odd bit: this affects multiple installations of R. I have > multiple versions of R installed on my machine for testing purposes (R > 3.4.4, 3.6.1, and 4.1.2), and this issue suddenly appeared simultaneously > on all three. > > I've tested it hundreds of times in various situations on all three > installations and it is extremely consistent but utterly unreproducible. I > have a second computer with R installed that works normally, and I have > tried doing the exact same thing on that computer and it behaves as > expected. > > It's not a hotkey capture issue or a hardware since it doesn't matter if I > use the hotkey or use the right-click menu. So far as I can tell nothing > else has changed. Are there hidden options in Rgui, or is there like an > Rprofile file or something somewhere that all the R installations will run > on startup? Are there R commands that alter options in the gui itself? > > I'm not even sure who I should contact or what list I should use, since > this isn't really an issue with the R programming language itself but > rather an issue with the GUI. The issue doesn't involve any keywords that I > can think of to search for others with the same issue ("run R on selection" > appears a lot in unrelated pages). > > Best, > Steve Hartley > Staff scientist, National Cancer Institute > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.