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R crashes on opening of script

4 messages · alpinemappingguild at earthlink.net, Rob Goedman, Simon Urbanek +1 more

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Map PowerBook G4
OSX 10.4.7
R Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) 3819 

New user here, some positive experience with R in Windows O/S, but so far no luck with Mac version.
Installed R but experiencing persistent and repeated crashes when trying to open script files or creating a new. empty document from the console or using File>new document. Application waits a few seconds, then SBOD, then crash. Not sure how to retrieve crash report but any help would be much appreciated. 

mg
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Hi,

1) To get to the crash, go to Console.app in /Application/Utilities,  
click on Logs, select ~/Library/Logs
and look under CrashReporter.

2) Could you send me your .plist file (in ~/Library/Preferences/org.R- 
project.R.plist)?

Can you send those to me?

Thanks,
Rob
On Sep 26, 2006, at 7:31 PM, alpinemappingguild at earthlink.net wrote:

            
1 day later
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On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:31 PM, alpinemappingguild at earthlink.net wrote:

            
I'm sorry about that - the GUI version you are using (3819) was  
experimental and has a rather nasty bug in the document handling.  
Although updating the GUI to the latest development version is  
usually recommended as it contains bug fixes, occasionally it can  
happen that we actually introduce one in the process of fixing  
another one.
Thanks, this should be fixed now in the revision 3825 of the GUI - it  
will be available from the nightly builds website ( http:// 
r.research.att.com ) tonight.
There are two ways to get a crash report. The first one is simple -  
when an application crashes, OS X asks you whether you want to send a  
report to Apple. Say "yes" and it will show you a window with the  
full report - don't click on "Send to Apple", just copy the text of  
the report and send it to us instead.

If you had a crash and want to see the report later, go to  
Application -> Utilities -> Console. If you don't see a list of logs  
on the left, click on "Logs" in the toolbar. Unfold ~/Library/Logs  
and there CrashReporter and then look for R.crash.log. It will have  
all your crashes, so look for the recent one.

Thanks,
Simon

PS: Please use real name in your posts when possible, anonymous post  
or posts using obscure e-mail names tend to be dismissed or ignored  
more readily.
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Simon,

I've tracked down the source of the error by installing versior  2.2.1

It turns out a few days ago I had disabled all my system fonts in order to 
troubleshoot
some font problems. I had not re-activated them. As a result version 3.2.1 
was very
unstable. Version 2.2.1 was more stable and also returned an error message 
about
a missing font. This led me to the problem. V.3.2.1 is now functioning as 
expected
with all system fonts available. I had also installed the new GUI.

Thanks for the response.

Martin Gamache----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
To: <alpinemappingguild at earthlink.net>
Cc: <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:42
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R crashes on opening of script