[R] Repeatable, But Time Varying R GUI Crash

[Ben Madin]

G'day all,

running the script in : [R.app GUI 1.28 (5399) i386-apple-darwin9.6.0]


R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)   i386-apple-darwin9.6.0

locale:
en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


returned :

  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 522
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 523
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 524
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 525
Error in mjunk[3, 30] : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
 >



Running it in the terminal returned:

  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 954
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 955
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 956
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 957
  junk = 1 mjunk = -1 sum = 0 i = 958
Error in junk[1, 5] : object of type 'closure' is not subsettable


I don't know if this helps you at all...

cheers

Ben



On 07/08/2009, at 6:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 8/6/2009 4:11 PM, Marilyn & Rich Short wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having a problem in R. The R GUI is crashing with a message to
>> contact Microsoft for the solution. I've contacted Microsoft and they
>> are of no help. Below is a distilled set of code that will cause the
>> crash. As you will see, there are two do-loops within which is a  
>> "load"
>> command. The crash usually occurs after 200*400 (=80,000) to
>> 2,000*400(=800,000) iterations.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions on work-arounds?
>
> I can confirm it in R-patched as well.  It happens on the very first
> time through if you set gctorture() on, so it looks like somewhere in
> there is a missing PROTECT, and the garbage collector is reclaiming
> something that it shouldn't.
>
> I'll try to track it down, but I'm not sure how quick I'll be.  (My
> house is full of contractors right now, so not a very nice place to  
> work.)
>
> I don't know any workaround other than "avoid doing the buggy thing".
> But I can't tell you what that is....
>
> Duncan Murdoch

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