I can reproduce this too.
Run  from within emacs:

> v <- data.frame(1:3,2:4)
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;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
> View(v)
>
 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x4, 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: 3

Process R exited abnormally with code 70 at Tue May 12 22:41:55 2009

Kjetil


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 12 May 2009 at 19:46, Ben Bolker wrote:
> |   It's my vague impression that View() is workable on Windows and maybe
> | on MacOS, but on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (intrepid) it seems completely
> | unstable.  I can reliably crash R by trying to look  at a very small,
> | simple data frame ...
> |
> |    I was going to try to run with debug turned on, but my installed
> | version (2.9.0) doesn't have debugging symbols, and I'm having trouble
>
> Good news: just run
>
>     sudo apt-get install r-base-core-dbg
>
> Most (library) packages (lib)foo now also ship (lib)foo-dbg which is
> provide
> something close to pure magic -- just by installing these the already
> instrumented gdb knows where to look for them.  See, no more recompiling.
> Debug symbols appear out of thin air.  (I have used it only on Debian at
> home
> when debugging R stuff, but it should really work the same for you there on
> Ubuntu.)
>
> | building the latest SVN version (./configure gives "checking for
> | recommended packages... ls: cannot access
> | ./src/library/Recommended/boot_*.tar.gz: No such file or directory")
>
> It's moot as per the above but you need to either run the script to rsync
> those in, or configure using
>
>                    --without-recommended-packages
>
> As for x11 instability, I happen to spend my daytime hours in from of
> Cygwin/X connected to a few Ubuntu machines running R, and of late the
> display has been unstable.  I tend to blame the other software first, but
> indeed, the most recent change was probably R.  Did anybody experience
> that?
>
> |    Can anyone confirm?
> |
> |   cheers
> |     Ben Bolker
> |
> |
> | R --vanilla
> |
> | > v <- data.frame(1:3,2:4)
> | > sessionInfo()
> | R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
> | i486-pc-linux-gnu
> |
> | locale:
> |
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;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
> |
> | > View(v)
> |
> |   [change focus to the view window, hit "down arrow"]
> |
> | >
> |  *** caught segfault ***
> | address 0x4, 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: 3
>
> Confirmed. Dies for me too, but from Debian and Ubuntu connected to the
> same
> display (Ubuntu 9.04).
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
>
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