[R] problem with plot() and R 2.1.0

[Berton Gunter]

Yup, it crashed my Windows 2000 laptop! In fact, so bad, I had to remove the
battery to restart.

My guess is that this is deep in the heart of the C code in the display
libraries that 2.1.0 uses. Good luck to the R gurus in finding it. In case
it's of any use, here are particulars of my computer:

platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    2              
minor    1.0            
year     2005           
month    04             
day      18             
language R      

More importantly, perhaps:
Display adapter = ATI Radeon IGP 350M 

You seem to have an ati adapter and driver, also. Does this only occur with
their drivers?


-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
 
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."  - George E. P. Box
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Errol 
> Wayne Robinson
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:15 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] problem with plot() and R 2.1.0
> 
> The following line when pasted into an R Console window 
> causes Windows XP to flash a blue screen 
> and then restart.
> 
> R version 2.1.0
> >plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="l")
> 
> Windows XP SP2
> I installed the precompiled version of R 2.1.0
> 
> This isn't the data I was originally trying to graph, but a 
> way to reproduce the error I observed. 
>   Plotting without the sin() did not reproduce the error.
> 
> I realize this might be unique to my system, but I thought I 
> would report the problem and see if 
> anyone else had encountered this difficulty.  I have also 
> tried a variety of other plots and those 
> results are summarized below.
> 
> Other plot() attempts:
> 
> R version 2.0.0
> > plot(x=c(1:100),y=c(1:100), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:100),y=sin(c(1:100)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:1000),y=sin(c(1:1000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:10000),y=sin(c(1:10000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:10000000),y=sin(c(1:10000000)), type="l")
> all plotted without problem (if you try the last one it might 
> require some patience to plot)
> 
> R version 2.0.1
> 
> > plot(x=c(1:100),y=c(1:100), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:100),y=sin(c(1:100)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:1000),y=sin(c(1:1000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:10000),y=sin(c(1:10000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:10000000),y=sin(c(1:10000000)), type="l")
> > 
> also all plotted without problem
> 
> R version 2.1.0 (further tests)
> 
> > plot(x=c(1:100000),y=sin(c(1:100000)), type="p")
> works
> > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="p")
> works
> > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="b")
> works
> > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="o")
> works
> > plot(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="n")
> > lines(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l")
> no plotting
> > plot(x=c(1,1000000), y=c(1,-1), type="p")
> > lines(x=c(1:1000000),y=sin(c(1:1000000)), type="l")
> crashes the computer
> 
> > plot(x=c(1:10000),y=sin(c(1:10000)), type="l")
> > plot(x=c(1:15000),y=sin(c(1:15000)), type="l")
> >works
> > plot(x=c(1:20000),y=sin(c(1:20000)), type="l")
> The screen resolution is set to a very low level.
> The color depth has been set to a very low level.
> windows displays an error which reads:
> "The ati2dvag display driver has stopped working normally.  
> Save your work and reboot the system 
> to restore full display functionality.  The next time you 
> reboot the machine a dialog will be 
> displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this 
> failure to Microsoft"
> 
> I was convinced that I had a hardware /driver issue until I 
> saw the plots work in older versions 
> of R.  Now I don't know what to think.  So I'm sending out 
> this email to see if anyone else has 
> similar problems or can suggest a solution.
> 
> Errol Robinson
> ewr at berkeley.edu
> 
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