[Rd] View() + "End" key on Ubuntu=segfault

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Feb 10 09:52:56 CET 2008


It's a generic problem with the X11 dataeditor using End.  It was trying 
to start at column 0.

Fixed now.

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Ben Bolker wrote:

>
>   I can repeatably crash R (segfault)
>
>  by doing
>
> n <- 10
> z <- data.frame(a=1:n,b=1:n)
> View(z)
>
>  and then hitting the "End" key on my keyboard.
>
>   I haven't got debugging going yet, but running under
> gdb (without debugging symbols) does give this:
>
> 0xb7b63583 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
>
> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>
> [Ubuntu Gutsy]
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
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