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Bus error while updating packages

5 messages · Michael Kubovy, Simon Urbanek, Erich Neuwirth

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Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong?

I had issued the command update.packages(), after which I went through  
the usual dialog:

mixtools :
  Version 0.2.0 installed in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ 
library
  Version 0.3.0 available at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN
Update (y/N/c)?  y
?
tsDyn :
  Version 0.5-7 installed in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ 
library
  Version 0.6-0 available at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN
Update (y/N/c)?  y
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.6/mixtools_0.3.0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 325712 bytes (318 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 318 Kb
?
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.6/tsDyn_0.6-0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 519954 bytes (507 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 507 Kb


  *** caught bus error ***
address 0x20, cause 'non-existent physical address'

Traceback:
  1: unlink(instPath, recursive = TRUE)
  2: unpackPkg(foundpkgs[okp, 2], foundpkgs[okp, 1], lib,  
installWithVers)
  3: .install.macbinary(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, contriburl =  
contriburl,     method = method, available = available, destdir =  
destdir,     installWithVers = installWithVers, dependencies =  
dependencies)
  4: install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl =  
contriburl,     method = method, available = available, ..., type =  
type)
  5: update.packages()

I am running
R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


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Michael,

can you, please, send me a full stack trace (i.e. run R with "R -d  
gdb" then type "c", do whatever it takes to crash R, type "bt" and  
send me the result). Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce this  
myself, but it has occurred before to other users.

Thanks,
Simon
On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

            
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I know this question belongs to this list only to 50 percent ;-)

I finally managed to install R 2.5.1 (on Leopard)
and should be able to use R from within SPSS with SPSS plugin.
My problem ist that whenever I do a print or a cat in an "embedded"
R program, SPSS crashes.

Does anybody on this list have experience with the SPSS-R combination on
Leopard? Has somebody else experienced similar problems?
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I think I have traced the bug. It's fixed in 2.6.2 patched, but also  
just in time for the Mac 2.6.2 CRAN binary released today.

Cheers,
Simon
On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

            
1 day later
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Afert completely removing all versions of R, reinstalling them in
historical order, and reinstalling the R plugin in SPSS things finally
work as they should.
Erich Neuwirth wrote: