David, On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:30 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> A post to r-help today prompted me to see if I could reproduce the problems > the poster was having with a hang as a result of access to a pdf vignette for > package zoo. I was not able to get a hang with using (from the GUI): > vignette("zoo") > but I was able to get a hang when access the zoo help Index and choosing the > "overview" link at the top of the help browser page. The OP was using R > 2.11.1, while I was using R 2.10.1. We both were using OSX 10.5.8. > Do you have any Adobe plugins installed? They are known to be buggy and crash at times. The standard OS X pdf viewers work just fine. In case you have no plugins - can you, please, describe in detail how to reproduce the issue? (GUI/ command line, exact version) I was following your steps in the GUI [R.app GUI 1.34 (5589) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0] and it was working just fine on 10.6.3 (I don't have access to 10.5 at the moment). Thanks, Simon > I then updated to yesterdays stable R 2.11.1 from the ATT page and can still > get the segfault, although it no longer hangs. It lets me exit gracefully and > even lets me copy portions of the console window: > > > ?zoo > starting httpd help server ... done > > *** caught segfault *** > address 0x101e90000, cause 'memory not mapped' > > Possible actions: > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) > 2: normal R exit > 3: exit R without saving workspace > 4: exit R saving workspace > > > Selection: > > > The original r 2.10.1 setup .... > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.10.1 RC (2009-12-09 r50695) > x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 > > locale: > [1] 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] zoo_1.6-3 lattice_0.18-3 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] grid_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1 > > The error report from R 2.10.1 is available if anyone is interested. > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac