Help in creating a MacOSX binary of the mapdata package 2.1-3?

Hello all,

I recently noticed that the MacOSX binary of the mapdata package ver 2.1-3
wasn't available.

The mapdata package is a useful extension for the maps package, providing
higher-resolution map data.

In contacting package maintainer Ray Brownrigg, (Ray.Brownrigg at
ecs.vuw.ac.nz), I'm told that he is willing to make the fixes necessary,
however does not have the Mac resources to track the bug causing the
problems.

In looking at the log, I get the impression that the actual problem is
minor, in that a problem occurs in checking the examples.
Not being able to run your examples is not 'minor': it is the first 
test that the package is installed properly, and 'china' is the first 
example.

You haven't told us the 'at a minimum information' asked for in the 
posting guide.  What version of R (including what architecture) are 
you running?  Have you actually tried compiling from the package 
sources yourself?  It works for me on i386 and x86_64.

So there is a fair chance simply installing from the sources will work 
for you.  If you have Xcode installed, all you need to do is

install.packages('mapdata', type = 'source')
library(mapdata)
example(china)

.
Here's a copy-and-paste from the logs below.

==================================================================
checking examples ... ERROR
Running examples in 'mapdata-Ex.R' failed.
The error most likely occurred in:

### * china

flush(stderr()); flush(stdout())

### Name: china
### Title: China Map
### Aliases: china chinaMapEnv
### Keywords: datasets

### ** Examples

map('china')
*** caught segfault ***
address 0x30010073, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: .C("maptype", PACKAGE = "maps", as.character(mapbase), integer(1))
2: maptype(database)
3: map("china")
aborting ...
==================================================================

Does anyone in the Mac group have the skills and time to figure this out and
contact Ray about a solution?

Sorry, I should really try to do this myself, but I'm still very new at
this...

Thanks,

Jooil

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Help in creating a MacOSX binary of the mapdata package 2.1-3?

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