Dear Robert, thanks for your quick reply. You're completely right. I've R 2.1.0 and BioC 1.5, all R and BioC (complete installation) packages updated. The problem looks unrelated to the type of the packages, and is slowly increasing as the workspace increases. For example if I mistype "wirte.table" instead "write.table", at the beginning of my work suddenly pop window "Couldn't find the function..." appears. If I do the same thing after I loaded the microarray data, 1 minute wait, after cluster analysis and PAM analysis etc, 5 minutes for the window to appear. The same it happens for every error message (Object not found, Syntax error, etc etc etc). I hope I don't have a virus, I checked with various tools... But you're right, I'll move to R Discussion group... Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, Giulio. >From: Robert Gentleman <rgentlem@fhcrc.org> >To: "Giulio Di Giovanni" <perimessaggini@hotmail.com> >CC: bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >Subject: Re: [BioC] Windows error messages >Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:16:58 -0700 > >Dear Giulio, > Thanks for information about your computer. What about some information >about the version of R you are running - and perhaps even some explicit >information about the the packages and some examples of what you did and >what happened? sessionInfo will help, it would also help if you tried to >track down the problem a bit - does it always happen? Only when certain >packages are being used? Any of these might help to figure out what the >real problem is - and my own personal guess is that you have a virus - but >that is merely a guess - but certainly one other thing to look at. > > Also, since this is almost surely an R problem, I suggest that you move > your question to the r-help mailing list, as it is more appropriate (at >least from this report I see nothing that is specific to Bioconductor >packages) and more widely read. They too will want some details (like >those from sessionInfo). > > Best wishes, > Robert > > >On May 16, 2005, at 6:04 AM, Giulio Di Giovanni wrote: > >> >>Dear BioC users, >> >>I don't know if this is the real place to submit this question, but I >>have a really annoying problem...and usually here is full of nice people >>who can help me.. >> >>Using WinXP system (on a AMD3000+ 1,5 GB RAM), recently I started to have >>error messages, together with the usual R-shell writings, also in >>appearing pop windows. >>The problem is that, after a while, with many loaded variables and >>libraries, these windows are really slow to appear. Every time I've to >>wait 5-10 minutes before the window appears !!!!! I cannot do anything, >>every single mispelling or banal key error, and I've to wait !!! >>It's impossible to work... I tried runnig R in SDI mode, reinstalling... >>nothing. Greater the workspace, slower I get the messages... >> >>Maybe someone else already experienced this, and found a solution... I >>don't know what to do... >> >>Thanks in advance >> >>Giulio >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Bioconductor mailing list >>Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> >> >+-------------------------------------------------------------------- --- >----------------+ >| Robert Gentleman phone: (206) 667-7700 > | >| Head, Program in Computational Biology fax: (206) 667-1319 | >| Division of Public Health Sciences office: M2-B865 > | >| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > | >| email: rgentlem@fhcrc.org > | >+-------------------------------------------------------------------- --- >----------------+ >