[Rd] plot, plot, methods, crash (PR#5173)

[Simon.Fear at synequanon.com]

(If this only happens in Win 98, I'm sure I could live with it. Just
may be helpful to report it, I hope.)

Start up R GUI, then

> plot(1:4,1:4)	# then close manually by clicking X
> plot(1:4,1:4)  # ditto
> methods(plot) 

sometimes produces normal output and even the following prompt, 
but then crashes immediately, or more often, crashes immediately with
no output.

I can do any number of plot() -methods() pairs, just not more than one
plot followed by methods(). I've tried plot x 2 followed by several other
functions without problems - methods() is the only one I know to fail.

For the above sequence the errror output is:

RGUI caused an invalid page fault in
module R.DLL at 0167:6b57d300.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=6b57d300 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0073c648 EBP=0073c660
ECX=00000101 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=2a17
EDX=019e1e38 ES=016f EDI=6b5f0000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 10 83 fa 30 74 19 83 fa 50 74 14 89 45 08 8b 
Stack dump:
00000000 bff741f7 00000000 bff54e68 0001dce4 00000000 0073c6a0 6b57d470
00000001 0073c688 0073c6d4 0073c6ee 0000000d c01c0001 0073c6b8 6b57c18a 

>From bug.report("no connected email") just before the crash line:

--please do not edit the information below--

Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = i386
 os = mingw32
 system = i386, mingw32
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 8.0
 year = 2003
 month = 10
 day = 08
 language = R

Windows 98 SE 4.10 (build 2222)  A 

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva, package:modreg,
package:nls, package:ts, Autoloads, package:base  
 
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