[R] tiff()-bug (was re:Preparing high quality figures with tiff as end result)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 6/25/2008 9:37 AM, Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
> A short update that may be of help:
> The snippet of code does not crash R if i run under vanilla, nor if I
> change R to MDI-mode.
> It does crash R infallibly if I set it to SDI-mode in  the Rprofile
> file. Strange...

It was an uninitialized variable, so results depended on whatever had
last been using that memory location.  Now fixed in R-devel, R-patched
testing in progress...

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> /Gustaf
> 
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Peng Jiang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi , Gustaf
>>> i don't know why but it works pretty well on a mac.
>>
>> with completely different code.
>>
>> Gustaf Rydevik has mentioned this before -- it never fails for me on Windows
>> and hence one would not expect there to be a change in 2.7.1. Only if
>> someone can reproduce it under a debugger have we a chance of tracking it
>> down.
>>
>>> regards .
>>> On 2008-6-25, at 下午4:16, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> A while back I sent a message concerning working with tiff-files, and
>>>>> mentioned that I encountered a bug in 2.7.0.
>>>>> This bug still occurs in 2.7.1, and is reproducable on a separate
>>>>> computer (both running WinXP professional):
>>>>> tiff()
>>>>> plot(1:1000)
>>>>> dev.off()
>>>>> This causes R to show the window "R GUI has encountered a problem and
>>>>> needs to close".
>>>>> Can anyone else out there reproduce this, so I can file a bug report?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Confirmed.
>>>>
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Gustaf Rydevik
>>>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>
>>>>> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>>>>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>>>> locale:
>>>>>
>>>>> LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252
>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>> [1] RWinEdt_1.8-0
>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>> [1] tools_2.7.1
>>>>>
>>>>
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