Thanks, no problem for me to wait for the fix. It's just nice to know that I
was able to help improve R in a small way by using R-devel. Usually, it is
ME making the error! Thanks again for all your development efforts. Cheers,
Mark

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Indiana University School of Medicine

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> Okay, I've tracked this down, and it's a stupid error I made when trying to
> improve the error messages.  I tried to make the parser remember its
> position in a file when parsing it line by line so that it could report on
> syntax errors properly; the trouble is that when it executes one of those
> lines (like yours containing source()), it might re-enter the parser.  It
> needs to save and restore its state around that sort of call.
>
> This will be fairly easy to fix, but I won't be able to do it until
> tomorrow.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>
> On 16/09/2009 3:51 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded R-devel and when loaded it immediately segfaults. I'm
>> not
>> sure how much or what sort of diagnostic info and can provide, but below
>> is
>> my build script, my console output, and the output of uname -r. I am
>> currently dependent on the development version of a package, so I'd like
>> to
>> get R-devel up and running if possible. I am sure there is more info I can
>> provide, but before deluging the list with unnecessary output, I thought I
>> would ask first what would be helpfu. Mark
>>
>
>  #Make R
>> cd ~/R_HOME
>> wget ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-devel.tar.gz
>> tar -xzf R-devel.tar.gz
>> cd ~/R_HOME/R-devel
>> mkdir R-build
>> cd R-build
>> ../configure --prefix=/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/R-devel/R-build
>> make all
>> make install
>>
>> #####################################33
>> # console output
>> mkimpel-XPS ~/R_HOME/R-devel/R-build/bin: ./R
>>
>> R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-09-15 r49711)
>> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>
>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>
>>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>
>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>
>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>>
>>  *** caught segfault ***
>> address (nil), 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: 2
>> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>>
>> ######################################
>> # kernel version
>> mkimpel-XPS ~/R_HOME/R-devel/R-build/bin: uname -r
>> 2.6.30-1-amd64
>> mkimpel-XPS ~/R_HOME/R-devel/R-build/bin:
>>
>>
>> Mark W. Kimpel MD  ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
>> Indiana University School of Medicine
>>
>> 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN  46074
>>
>> (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail
>> (317) 399-1219 Skype No Voicemail please
>>
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