On Aug 29, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Jooil Kim wrote:
Hello all,I recently noticed that the MacOSX binary of the mapdata package ver 2.1-3wasn't available.
There is an earlier version 2.1-1.
The mapdata package is a useful extension for the maps package, providinghigher-resolution map data. In contacting package maintainer Ray Brownrigg, (Ray.Brownrigg atecs.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. 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:
When I compile from source on a Mac 10.5.8 running R 2.11.1 the version 2.1-3 of mapdata does not report an error.
> require(mapdata)
> map("china") # draws a map
map_china.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
> sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-02-17 r51152) 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] mapdata_2.1-3 maps_2.1-4 reshape_0.8.3 plyr_0.1.9 lattice_0.18-3
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1
### * 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 andcontact Ray about a solution?Sorry, I should really try to do this myself, but I'm still very new atthis... Thanks, Jooil -- ############################################# Jooil Kim Graduate Student School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University Gwanak Gu Shillim 9 Dong San 56-1 Seoul National Univ. Bld#501, Rm 503 Seoul, Rep. of Korea 151-742 kji2...@gmail.com tel) 82-2-877-6741 fax) 82-2-885-7164 ############################################# [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
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