R crash on Mac
I got a private message from Dr Azzalini this morning which I think was intended for the list I have now been notified that my message below has not been delivered. Try to send from another server. Hope this one works. From: aa at manerin.stat.unipd.it (Adelchi Azzalini) To: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> Reply-To: azzalini at stat.unipd.it Subject: Re: [R] R crash on Mac Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:46:21 +0100
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:59:54AM -0500, David Winsemius wrote:
I cannot reproduce a crash from within the experimental 64 bit GUI in Leapard using any of that input. I am copying the R-SIG-Mac list which I think is the appropriate venue. You say you are using OS X 10.5.6 but your R.version info says it is a Tiger 10.4.11.1 system. Looking at the CRAN package check page I see that the CRAN build is done on an OS X 10.4.10 machine, which is only off my one from the 8.11.1 designation, so maybe someone forgot to update that entry when they updated that machine. (Your version is even older than mine, so you might try updating.)
Thanks for the feedback and the suggestion. I have then downloaded the most recent R version 2.8.1 from http://R.research.att.com/ R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-02-26 r48012) i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 but the problem with ask() is still there.. R> ask('x') x: c(1, 3,4) *** caught segfault *** address 0x4628d484, cause 'memory not mapped' In one case, I got instead, withou crash Error in parse(prompt = paste(message, ": ", sep = "")) : 'getEncChar' must be called on a CHARSXP Thanks again fro your advice. Best wishes, Adelchi Azzalini
Adelchi Azzalini <azzalini at stat.unipd.it> Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Universit? di Padova, Italia tel. +39 049 8274147, http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/ On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: > > If I define this function > > R> ask <- function (message = "Type in datum") > eval(parse(prompt = paste(message, ": ", sep = ""))) > > the following is produced as expected on a Linux/debian machine > > R> ask("input") > input: 3 > [1] 3 > R> ask("input") > input: 3:6 > [1] 3 4 5 6 > R> ask("input") > input: c(3,6) > [1] 3 6 > > If I run exactly the same on a Mac (OS X 10.5.6), it still works > provided R is run in a Terminal window. > > The outcome changes if R is run in "its own window", started by > clicking > on its icon; the first two examples are still Ok, the third one > produces: > > > *** caught segfault *** > address 0x4628c854, cause 'memory not mapped' > > > R> sessionInfo() # before crash! > R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) > i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 > > locale: > en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats utils datasets grDevices graphics methods base > R> R.version > _ > platform i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 > arch i386 > os darwin8.11.1 > system i386, darwin8.11.1 > status > major 2 > minor 8.1 > year 2008 > month 12 > day 22 > svn rev 47281 > language R > version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) > > > > -- > Adelchi Azzalini <azzalini at stat.unipd.it> > Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Universit? di Padova, Italia tel. +39 049 8274147, http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/ On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:59 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > I cannot reproduce a crash from within the experimental 64 bit GUI > in Leapard using any of that input. > > I am copying the R-SIG-Mac list which I think is the appropriate > venue. > > You say you are using OS X 10.5.6 but your R.version info says it is > a Tiger 10.4.11.1 system. Looking at the CRAN package check page I > see that the CRAN build is done on an OS X 10.4.10 machine, which is > only off my one from the 8.11.1 designation, so maybe someone forgot > to update that entry when they updated that machine. > > (Your version is even older than mine, so you might try updating.) > > -- > David Winsemius > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515) > i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 > > locale: > en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] latticeExtra_0.5-4 RColorBrewer_1.0-2 lattice_0.17-20 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] grid_2.8.1 > > > R.version > _ > platform i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 > arch i386 > os darwin9.6.0 > system i386, darwin9.6.0 > status Patched > major 2 > minor 8.1 > year 2009 > month 01 > day 07 > svn rev 47515 > language R > version.string R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515) > > > On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: > >> >> If I define this function >> >> R> ask <- function (message = "Type in datum") >> eval(parse(prompt = paste(message, ": ", sep = ""))) >> >> the following is produced as expected on a Linux/debian machine >> >> R> ask("input") >> input: 3 >> [1] 3 >> R> ask("input") >> input: 3:6 >> [1] 3 4 5 6 >> R> ask("input") >> input: c(3,6) >> [1] 3 6 >> >> If I run exactly the same on a Mac (OS X 10.5.6), it still works >> provided R is run in a Terminal window. >> >> The outcome changes if R is run in "its own window", started by >> clicking >> on its icon; the first two examples are still Ok, the third one >> produces: >> >> >> *** caught segfault *** >> address 0x4628c854, cause 'memory not mapped' >> >> >> R> sessionInfo() # before crash! >> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) >> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 >> >> locale: >> en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats utils datasets grDevices graphics methods base >> R> R.version >> _ >> platform i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 >> arch i386 >> os darwin8.11.1 >> system i386, darwin8.11.1 >> status >> major 2 >> minor 8.1 >> year 2008 >> month 12 >> day 22 >> svn rev 47281 >> language R >> version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) >> >> >> >> -- >> Adelchi Azzalini <azzalini at stat.unipd.it> >> Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Universit? di Padova, Italia >> tel. +39 049 8274147, http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac