[Rd] FW: R-devel error

Gabriel Becker gmbecker at ucdavis.edu
Wed Dec 6 18:06:27 CET 2017 

Robert,

To expand a bit on Goran's point, is it possible that you have an old
library with packages installed that your R-devel is hitting. The R headers
changes relatively recently, so any packages with compiled code that were
built long enough ago (I don't have the exact date off the top of my head)
need to be rebuilt before they can be safely used.

If this is happening in a state where both the package in question AND all
it's dependencies are freshly built under the exact version of R-devel
you're trying to check httk with, then the above isn't the problem and
something else must be going on.

Best,
~G

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Göran Broström <goran.brostrom at umu.se>
wrote:

> Interesting, yesterday I had exactly this problem, but today I solved it
> (see the R-pkg-devel list) by _installing_ R-devel and
>
> > update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)
>
> I also tried it on Martin's Fedora 26 example below. Worked fine (had to
> install some packages...)
>
> On ubuntu 16.04.
>
> Göran Broström
>
>
> On 2017-12-06 11:29, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>> Pearce, Robert <Pearce.Robert at epa.gov>
>>>>>>>      on Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:31:09 +0000 writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>      > I am resubmitting this bug report but with additional information.
>> I am running this with windows 10:  w64-mingw32 with R Under development
>> (unstable) (2017-12-04 r73829).
>>
>> There is no such message (as you cite below) in the R-devel archives:
>>        https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-November/thread.html
>>
>> Hence it was never posted for some reason
>> (You may have *sent* it, but it never arrived "safely")
>>
>>
>>      > I build 'httk' from the command prompt using 'R CMD build httk'
>> after installing the required packages. Then when the vignettes are being
>> created, it crashes. Today I installed the latest versions of Rtools,
>> MikTex and R-devel and still got the same error. We have also replicated
>> this on another machine. I am able to successfully build the package in
>> this way with R 3.4.3.
>>
>> Robert
>>>
>>
>> To make this reproducible, indeed, I also get
>> problem, possibly the same as you on my Linux machine (Fedora 26):
>>
>> 1. Get  httk_1.7.tar.gz from https://cran.r-project.org/package=httk
>>
>> 2. unpack (for me:)
>>         tar xf httk_1.7.tar.gz
>> 3.
>>         R-devel CMD build httk
>>
>> I get the following.
>> Notably after having waited several minutes at the prompt
>> (line  of output):
>>
>>   '* creating vignettes '
>>
>>    -----------------------------------------------------------
>> -------------
>>    [nfslocal at lynne tmp]$ R-devel CMD build httk
>>    * checking for file ‘httk/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
>>    * preparing ‘httk’:
>>    * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>>    * cleaning src
>>    * installing the package to process help pages
>>    * saving partial Rd database
>>    * creating vignettes ...sh: line 1: 16259 Segmentation fault
>> (core dumped) '/u/maechler/R/D/r-devel/inst/bin/Rscript' --vanilla
>> --default-packages= -e "tools::buildVignettes(dir = '.', tangle = TRUE)" >
>> '/tmp/RtmpV1grVw/xshell3e793c7d5258' 2>&1
>>     ERROR
>>
>>     *** caught segfault ***
>>    address 0x1, cause 'memory not mapped'
>>
>>    Traceback:
>>     1: .Call(C_stri_locate_all_regex, str, pattern, omit_no_match,
>> opts_regex)
>>     2: stri_locate_all_regex(string, pattern, omit_no_match = TRUE,
>>  opts_regex = opts)
>>     3: stringr::str_locate_all(input, inline.code)
>>     4: parse_inline(g, patterns)
>>     5: FUN(X[[i]], ...)
>>     6: lapply(groups, function(g) {    block = grepl(chunk.begin, g[1])
>>   if (!set.preamble && !parent_mode()) {        return(if (block) "" else
>> g)    }    if (block) {        n = length(g)        if (n >= 2 &&
>> grepl(chunk.end, g[n]))             g = g[-n]        g = strip_block(g,
>> patterns$chunk.code)        params.src = if (group_pattern(chunk.begin)) {
>>           stringr::str_trim(gsub(chunk.begin, "\\1", g[1]))        }
>>     else ""        parse_block(g[-1], g[1], params.src)    }    else
>> parse_inline(g, patterns)})
>>     7: split_file(lines = text)
>>     8: process_file(text, output)
>>     9: knitr::knit(knit_input, knit_output, envir = envir, quiet =
>> quiet,     encoding = encoding)
>>    10: rmarkdown::render(file, encoding = encoding, quiet = quiet, envir
>> = globalenv())
>>    11: vweave_rmarkdown(...)
>>    12: engine$weave(file, quiet = quiet, encoding = enc)
>>    13: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
>>    14: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
>>    15: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
>>    16: tryCatch({    engine$weave(file, quiet = quiet, encoding = enc)
>> setwd(startdir)    find_vignette_product(name, by = "weave", engine =
>> engine)}, error = function(e) {    stop(gettextf("processing vignette '%s'
>> failed with diagnostics:\n%s",         file, conditionMessage(e)), domain =
>> NA, call. = FALSE)})
>>    17: tools::buildVignettes(dir = ".", tangle = TRUE)
>>    An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
>>    [nfslocal at lynne tmp]$
>>    -----------------------------------------------------------
>> -------------
>>
>>
>> I've seen this (segfault, triggered from stringr stuff) before,
>> occasionally and always thought it was a consequence of a messup
>> (different R versions and package installations in libraries I
>> use on the same computer....),  but now I have convinced myself
>> that this is not the case: I can easily reproduce the above using
>>
>>         tools::buildVignettes(dir = "<mypath_to>/httk")
>>
>> ==> So I'd suggest there's a pretty low-level bug somewhere.
>>
>> - Either in 'stringr' or 'stringi' in their C code using
>>    things they should not (because not in R's API),
>>    which now shows in R-devel where many "inner workings" have been
>>    modified (key "ALTREP")
>>
>> - or in R-devel .. in these new "inner workings".
>>
>>
>> I don't have time to dig further at the moment.
>>
>> Thank you, Robert, for your report!
>>
>> Martin Maechler,
>> ETH Zurich
>>
>>
>>      > From: Pearce, Robert
>>      > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 11:32 AM
>>      > To: 'r-devel at r-project.org' <r-devel at r-project.org>
>>      > Subject: R-devel error
>>
>>
>>      > Hello,
>>
>>      > During the last week I've been getting an error with r-devel when
>> building the source package for 'httk'. Everything works fine until:
>> 'creating vignettes...' . Then I get a pop-up stating: 'R for Windows
>> front-end has stopped working... close the program'. I have installed the
>> latest version of R, and this error does not occur.
>>
>>      > Robert Pearce
>>
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Gabriel Becker, PhD
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