[R] playwith package crashes on Mac

[Felix Andrews]

Dear Professor Kubovy

I do not have a Mac to test it on, but please try this:
library(cairoDevice)
Cairo()
grid::grid.newpage()

I expect that you will see a similar crash; if so, it would seem to be
a problem with your GTK+ libraries. I have heard that you need to have
Apple X11 installed (from MacOS system CDs?) for RGtk2 to work. But I
am not sure whether that advice is still current.

Hope that helps.
Felix

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Michael Kubovy <kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I tried the playwith packages for the first time, and it crashed R:
>
>  > require(playwith)
> Loading required package: playwith
> Loading required package: lattice
> Loading required package: grid
> Loading required package: gWidgets
> Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
> Loading required package: RGtk2
> Loading required package: cairoDevice
>
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
> methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] playwith_0.9-3       cairoDevice_2.8      gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-35
> RGtk2_2.12.5-3       gWidgets_0.0-28
> [6] lattice_0.17-10
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] gridBase_0.4-3 tools_2.7.1
>
> Making links in per-session dir ... done
>
>  > rownames(USArrests) <- state.name
>  > playwith(plot(Assault ~ UrbanPop, data=USArrests,
> +   xlab="Percent urban population, 1973",
> +   ylab="Assault arrests (per 100,000), 1973"))
>
>  *** caught bus error ***
> address 0xa8, cause 'non-existent physical address'
>
> Traceback:
>  1: .Call(L_newpage)
>  2: grid.newpage()
>  3: playNewPlot(playState)
>  4: playwith(plot(Assault ~ UrbanPop, data = USArrests, xlab =
> "Percent urban population, 1973",     ylab = "Assault arrests (per
> 100,000), 1973"))
>
> 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:
> Selection: 3
>
>  *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x611912ca, cause 'memory not mapped'
>
> Traceback:
>  1: .Call(L_newpage)
>  2: grid.newpage()
>  3: playNewPlot(playState)
>  4: playwith(plot(Assault ~ UrbanPop, data = USArrests, xlab =
> "Percent urban population, 1973",     ylab = "Assault arrests (per
> 100,000), 1973"))
>
> 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
>
> Mac OS details:
>   System Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)
>   Kernel Version:      Darwin 9.4.0
>
>
>
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