[R] R 2.15.0 and 2.14.2 crash on the same code that runs on 2.14.1

[Rainer Hurling]

On 03.06.2012 09:17 (UTC+2), peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2012, at 07:40 , Ebrahim Jahanshiri wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> My code runs on 2.14.1 smoothly (with no error) but makes R crash on 2.14.2
>> and 2.15.0 with the usual windows message about "R for windows GUI
>> front-end has stopped working..." and as such I dont have any access to R
>> to get any error or warning message (if any). It crashes on random parts of
>> the code any time that I run it.
>> The code consists of EDA and spatial regression and various loops
>> and optimizations. The goal of the code is to perform a complete analysis
>> on various datasets.
>> Please take a look at the code here :
>> https://sites.google.com/site/geosciej/Home/STAR_ter1.R?attredirects=0&d=1
>
> You are not likely to find people willing to debug 15553 lines of code for you, and they are certainly not going to do it "by eye", without the datasets!
>
> One thing that jumps out is that you start off by loading five external packages, either of which might be the true owner of the problem. Even if the actual crash hits in the stats.dll, the underlying issue could well be memory corruption occurring some time earlier.
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> Things to try:
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> Run under Rterm in a command window instead of Rgui. That should at least tell you how far you got before the crash, maybe even a proper traceback.
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> Carefully try disabling parts of the code until the issue goes away. The last item removed might hold the clue. If you can cut it down to something small(-ish) and reproducible, people might be in a better position to help you.
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> Is it really a random crash, or does the crash point move every time you change the code slightly? If the former, you might have physical computer problems or you might be running close to your memory limit.

Just a guess:
One more thing you could try is to rebuild your packages under 2.15.0. 
One often forgets to update them after a version change of R:

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, dependencies=TRUE, ask='graphics')

Rainer Hurling

> -Peter D.
>
>>
>> It seems that the results that comes out of 2.15.0 is more valid for my
>> work.
>>
>> I cant think of anything that makes the code crash on the latest versions.
>>
>> Here is the error message from windows:
>>
>>   Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
>>   Application Name: Rgui.exe
>>   Application Version: 2.150.58871.0
>>   Application Timestamp: 4f75a0ca
>>   Fault Module Name: stats.dll
>>   Fault Module Version: 2.150.58871.0
>>   Fault Module Timestamp: 4f75a1c9
>>   Exception Code: c0000005
>>   Exception Offset: 000237c5
>>   OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
>>   Locale ID: 1033
>>   Additional Information 1: 0a9e
>>   Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>>   Additional Information 3: 0a9e
>>   Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>>
>>
>>
>> I appreciate your help,
>>
>> Thank you
>> Ebrahim Jahanshiri