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crash in R OS X GUI (PR#7903)

2 messages · pdbailey@uchicago.edu, Simon Urbanek

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pdbailey@uchicago.edu
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When I type an open paren the (otherwise absolutely wonderful)
help dialog at the bottom crashes R.

For example
[all is well
2005-05-27 14:13:14.843 R[478] *** -[NSCFDate
characterAtIndex:]: selector not recognized
2005-05-27 14:13:14.881 R[478] *** NSTimer discarding
exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException' (reason '*** -[NSCFDate
characterAtIndex:]: selector not recognized') that raised
during firing of timer with target 3c8350 and selector
'kickstart:'
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But I can't now reproduce it. Do you know about this bug? R is
a wonderful program and this experience has tought me just how
reliable I'm used to it being! Thanks a lot.

Paul
Simon Urbanek
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On May 27, 2005, at 3:25 PM, pdbailey@uchicago.edu wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Are you talking about the console or the editor?

            

      
      
      
    

        
This is a very strange error and it's just a soft exception so it  
should cause no crash - hitting <Esc> should get you back on track.  
But if it was a crash (with the famous "app unexpectedly quit"  
message), then there should be a  proper crash report - that would be  
more helpful in that case. Can you, please, run the debug version  
(from http://www.rosuda.org/R/nightly ) and send me the full report  
if this occurs again?

            

      
      
      
    

        
Not directly - it's hard to tell whether this is a bug if it's not  
reproducible ;). Did you run any computation in R while typing this?  
Was a Quartz window busy plotting something at that point?

Thanks,
Simon