Yup, it crashed my Windows 2000 laptop! In fact, so bad, I had to remove the battery to restart.
My guess is that this is deep in the heart of the C code in the display libraries that 2.1.0 uses. Good luck to the R gurus in finding it. In case it's of any use, here are particulars of my computer: platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 1.0 year 2005 month 04 day 18 language R More importantly, perhaps: Display adapter = ATI Radeon IGP 350M You seem to have an ati adapter and driver, also. Does this only occur with their drivers? -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Errol > Wayne Robinson > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:15 PM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] problem with plot() and R 2.1.0 > > The following line when pasted into an R Console window > causes Windows XP to flash a blue screen > and then restart. > > R version 2.1.0 > >plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="l") > > Windows XP SP2 > I installed the precompiled version of R 2.1.0 > > This isn't the data I was originally trying to graph, but a > way to reproduce the error I observed. > Plotting without the sin() did not reproduce the error. > > I realize this might be unique to my system, but I thought I > would report the problem and see if > anyone else had encountered this difficulty. I have also > tried a variety of other plots and those > results are summarized below. > > Other plot() attempts: > > R version 2.0.0 > > plot(x=c(1:100),y=c(1:100), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:100),y=sin(c(1:100)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:1000),y=sin(c(1:1000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:10000),y=sin(c(1:10000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:10000000),y=sin(c(1:10000000)), type="l") > all plotted without problem (if you try the last one it might > require some patience to plot) > > R version 2.0.1 > > > plot(x=c(1:100),y=c(1:100), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:100),y=sin(c(1:100)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:1000),y=sin(c(1:1000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:10000),y=sin(c(1:10000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:10000000),y=sin(c(1:10000000)), type="l") > > > also all plotted without problem > > R version 2.1.0 (further tests) > > > plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="p") > works > > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="p") > works > > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="b") > works > > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="o") > works > > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="n") > > lines(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l") > no plotting > > plot(x=c(1,1000000), y=c(1,-1), type="p") > > lines(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l") > crashes the computer > > > plot(x=c(1:10000),y=sin(c(1:10000)), type="l") > > plot(x=c(1:15000),y=sin(c(1:15000)), type="l") > >works > > plot(x=c(1:20000),y=sin(c(1:20000)), type="l") > The screen resolution is set to a very low level. > The color depth has been set to a very low level. > windows displays an error which reads: > "The ati2dvag display driver has stopped working normally. > Save your work and reboot the system > to restore full display functionality. The next time you > reboot the machine a dialog will be > displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this > failure to Microsoft" > > I was convinced that I had a hardware /driver issue until I > saw the plots work in older versions > of R. Now I don't know what to think. So I'm sending out > this email to see if anyone else has > similar problems or can suggest a solution. > > Errol Robinson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
