MacOS X - R crashes & import problem (PR#9005) - R-devel

Mon, Jun 19, 2006 2:43 AM #

Full_Name: Oliver Balmer
Version: 2.3.1
OS: Mac OS 10.4.6
Submission from: (NULL) (157.161.74.75)


when working in the editor R crashes regularly. no other program ever crashes.
one quite reliable way to crash it is by marking some code and then pressing the
"find" command. I have had this problem with other R versions before. I have the
feeling the editor is the problem. Another problem with the editor is that I
always need to hit the carriage return twice after inserting the cursor at a
certain point, after the first time, nothing happens. Not a big problem but
probably not as it should be, and maybe a hint for a deeper problem.

Another bug: if the imported data frame contains a ? (greek mu, as in
microliter), R can't read the file.

Peter Dalgaard

Mon, Jun 19, 2006 2:53 AM #

oliver.balmer at yale.edu writes:

Imported from what? If it is a text file, encoding issues may come
into play, and a valid mu in one encoding can be an invalid character
in another.

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Simon Urbanek

Mon, Jun 19, 2006 4:58 AM #

On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:43 AM, oliver.balmer at yale.edu wrote:

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this problem. A very common source  
of problems are 3rd-party haxies that are know to crash other  
applications. Please send me the crash report - without it we can't  
really do anything (it will also include important details you  
omitted like what Mac you are using etc.).

I cannot reproduce this either, it works flawlessly for me. As Peter  
mentioned earlier my guess is that you failed to use/define the  
correct encoding.

Cheers,
Simon