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(Debian Bug 344248): R segfaults when pressing Delete (PR#8420)

5 messages · Dirk Eddelbuettel, Martin Maechler, Hadley Wickham +1 more

Dirk Eddelbuettel
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Resend after type in mailheader.  I have the bug on my system with
yesterday's R 2.2.1. A library mismatch is still a likely cause.

Dirk

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CC: Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse at rpi.edu>, 344248-forwarded at bugs.debian.org, 
Subject: Re: Bug#344248: R crashes when I press "Delete"
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
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On 21 December 2005 at 01:50, Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
| Package: r-base-core
| Version: 2.2.1-1
| 
| When I run R, I can cause a crash by simply pressing Delete. Backspace works
| fine, and I can use ESS without problems.

Uh-oh.

| ethan at sundance:~$ R
| 
| R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| Version 2.2.1  (2005-12-20 r36812)
| ISBN 3-900051-07-0
| 
| R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
| Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
| 
| R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
| Type 'contributors()' for more information and
| 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
| 
| Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
| 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
| Type 'q()' to quit R.
| 
| [Previously saved workspace restored]

Could you (temporarily) remove that file?

| > Segmentation fault
| ethan at sundance:~$

That said, I just tried this where I seemed to have no ~/.RData file.
Pressing <Deletet><Return> leads to a SegFault.

I will pass this on R Core. 

Thanks for the bug report.
 
Dirk

| 
| 
| Here is a list of packages I thought might be relevant:
| 
| $ dpkg -l r-* libreadline*
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
| |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name           Version        Description
| +++-==============-==============-============================================
| un  libreadline-co <none>         (no description available)
| un  libreadline-de <none>         (no description available)
| ii  libreadline-ru 1.8.3+1.8.4pre Readline interface for Ruby 1.8
| ii  libreadline4   4.3-18         GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
| un  libreadline4-d <none>         (no description available)
| ii  libreadline5   5.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
| ii  libreadline5-d 5.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries, developm
| ii  r-base         2.2.1-1        GNU R statistical computing language and env
| ii  r-base-core    2.2.1-1        GNU R core of statistical computing language
| un  r-base-dev     <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-base-html    2.2.1-1        GNU R html docs for statistical computing sy
| ii  r-base-latex   2.2.1-1        GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical computing s
| ii  r-cran-boot    1.2.24-1       GNU R package for bootstrapping functions fr
| ii  r-cran-cluster 1.10.2-1       GNU R package for cluster analysis by Rousse
| ii  r-cran-foreign 0.8.12-1       GNU R package to read/write data from other
| ii  r-cran-gdata   2.1.2-1        GNU R package with data manipulation tools b
| ii  r-cran-gplots  2.2.0-1        GNU R package with tools for plotting data b
| un  r-cran-gregmis <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-cran-gtools  2.2.2-1        GNU R package with R programming tools by Gr
| ii  r-cran-kernsmo 2.22.15-1      GNU R package for kernel smoothing and densi
| ii  r-cran-lattice 0.12-11.1-1    GNU R package for 'Trellis' graphics
| ii  r-cran-lattice 0.1.1-1        GNU R package of additional graphical displa
| ii  r-cran-mgcv    1.3-12-1       GNU R package for multiple parameter smoothi
| ii  r-cran-misc3d  0.3-1-1        GNU R collection of 3d plot functions and rg
| ii  r-cran-nlme    3.1.62-1       GNU R package for (non-)linear mixed effects
| ii  r-cran-quadpro 1.4.7-2        GNU R package for solving quadratic programm
| ii  r-cran-rgl     0.65-1         GNU R package for three-dimensional visualis
| ii  r-cran-rpart   3.1.27-1       GNU R package for recursive partitioning and
| ii  r-cran-surviva 2.20-1         GNU R package for survival analysis
| un  r-cran-tkrplot <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-cran-vr      7.2.23-1       GNU R package accompanying the Venables and
| un  r-doc-html     <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-doc-info     2.2.1-1        GNU R info manuals statistical computing sys
| un  r-doc-pdf      <none>         (no description available)
| un  r-mathlib      <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-recommended  2.2.1-1        GNU R collection of recommended packages [me
| 
| 
| Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
| 
| Ethan
Martin Maechler
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PLEASE, PLEASE:
do use
	R-bugs at R-project.org
and nothing else
(It will go to Kopenhagen alright currently,
 but if we could ensure everyone used the above address,
 it would become quite a bit easier to prevent most spam to get
 into the R bug repository)

Martin
Peter Dalgaard
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hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> writes:
That's internal to the bug repository. It does everything by email,
and at some point messages need to reach the program invoked by the
mail server. Sending things to Zurich and back seems a bit silly....

        -p
Peter Dalgaard
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Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
Oops. You were talking about the email address on the front page? I'll
fix that one to point to Zurich.

        -p