[R] Segfault?

[max.e.brown at gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

I get (reproducible) segfaults when I try to update my packages, and
was wondering whether anyone knows why this might be happening.

I am trying to update my packages:
1. I start R via sudo in a terminal
2. I type update.packages() - a Tcl/Tk list pops up, I select a mirror
3. R segfaults.

Maybe I need to update to a newer version of R or something?

Slightly OT, but does anyone know where coredumps end up on Mac OS X?

Thanks.



Some details are below.
output:
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$ sudo R

R : Copyright 2006, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
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.

> update.packages()
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done

 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x5f4d4550, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
 1: download.file(url = paste(repos, "PACKAGES.gz", sep = "/"), destfile = tmpf,     method = method, cacheOK = FALSE, quiet = TRUE, mode = "wb")
 2: try(download.file(url = paste(repos, "PACKAGES.gz", sep = "/"),     destfile = tmpf, method = method, cacheOK = FALSE, quiet = TRUE,     mode = "wb"), silent = TRUE)
 3: available.packages(contriburl = contriburl, method = method)
 4: update.packages()

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection: 1
aborting ...
Segmentation fault
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I am running Mac OS X 10.4.9 on Dual PowerPC G5, R 2.3.1.