postscript() filenames with forward slashes cause abort

My newly installed R-2.1.0 apparently doesn't like forward 

slashes in

filenames:

R.version.string

[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18"

plotfile <- "\home\mean_monthly_stl.eps"
postscript(plotfile)
plotfile <- "/home/mean_monthly_stl.eps"
postscript(plotfile)

*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 

0x098e7180 

*** Abort

I would conjecture that it has to do with the fact that you 
do not have write permission in /home!  The backslashed 
version just creates homemean_monthly_stl.eps in the current 
directory. If you substitute /tmp for /home, the problem goes 
away (provided you're on some kind of Unix/Linux -- you 
didn't say). It's still a bug of course.