Dear all,

I am new to R system. When I tried to edit data read from a csv file, R
system crushed, I got an error message as follows:

> edit(data)
*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0x49d020b1]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x49d034a2]
/usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so[0x33ed7a]
/usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so[0x34050d]
/usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so[0x341858]
/usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so(RX11_dataentry+0xa25)[0x342f45]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0xa34675]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0x954ed6]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_eval+0x483)[0x925b23]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0x929ed8]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_eval+0x483)[0x925b23]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0x926a37]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_eval+0x483)[0x925b23]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_applyClosure+0x2a7)[0x928117]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0x95661f]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_usemethod+0x609)[0x957a89]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0x95825e]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_eval+0x483)[0x925b23]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_applyClosure+0x2a7)[0x928117]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_eval+0x2f4)[0x925994]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_ReplIteration+0x311)[0x945361]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so[0x945571]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(run_Rmainloop+0x60)[0x9458c0]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_mainloop+0x1c)[0x9458ec]
/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R(main+0x46)[0x80486f6]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0x49c3b4e4]
/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R[0x80485f1]
======= Memory map: ========
00111000-0012f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 16943095
/usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so
0012f000-00130000 rwxp 0001d000 fd:00 16943095
/usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so
00130000-00181000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 16976568
/usr/lib/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so
00181000-00183000 rwxp 00051000 fd:00 16976568
/usr/lib/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so
00339000-00352000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15959326   /usr/lib/R/modules/R_X11.so
00352000-00353000 rwxp 00018000 fd:00 15959326   /usr/lib/R/modules/R_X11.so
00353000-0035f000 rwxp 00353000 00:00 0
00480000-00496000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15303387   /usr/lib/gconv/SJIS.so
00496000-00498000 rwxp 00015000 fd:00 15303387   /usr/lib/gconv/SJIS.so
0056e000-00598000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 16452204   /usr/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so
00598000-00599000 rwxp 00029000 fd:00 16452204   /usr/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so
00848000-00851000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15204401   /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
00851000-00852000 r-xp 00008000 fd:00 15204401   /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
00852000-00853000 rwxp 00009000 fd:00 15204401   /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
00885000-00abd000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 16452203   /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so
00abd000-00aca000 rwxp 00238000 fd:00 16452203   /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so
00aca000-00b61000 rwxp 00aca000 00:00 0
00c47000-00c4d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 16944203
/usr/lib/R/library/methods/libs/methods.so
00c4d000-00c4e000 rwxp 00005000 fd:00 16944203
/usr/lib/R/library/methods/libs/methods.so
00eb6000-00f31000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15242987
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.1.0.0
00f31000-00f32000 rwxp 0007b000 fd:00 15242987
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.1.0.0
00f44000-00f45000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15303344   /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
00f45000-00f47000 rwxp 00000000 fd:00 15303344   /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15796032   /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R
08049000-0804a000 rwxp 00000000 fd:00 15796032   /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R
09ef7000-0af9f000 rwxp 09ef7000 00:00 0          [heap]
49c08000-49c09000 r-xp 49c08000 00:00 0          [vdso]
49c09000-49c22000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15206828   /lib/ld-2.4.so
49c22000-49c23000 r-xp 00018000 fd:00 15206828   /lib/ld-2.4.so
49c23000-49c24000 rwxp 00019000 fd:00 15206828   /lib/ld-2.4.so
49c26000-49d53000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15206829   /lib/libc-2.4.so
49d53000-49d55000 r-xp 0012d000 fd:00 15206829   /lib/libc-2.4.so
49d55000-49d56000 rwxp 0012f000 fd:00 15206829   /lib/libc-2.4.so
49d56000-49d59000 rwxp 49d56000 00:00 0
49d5b000-49d7e000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15206830   /lib/libm-2.4.so
49d7e000-49d7f000 r-xp 00022000 fd:00 15206830   /lib/libm-2.4.so
49d7f000-49d80000 rwxp 00023000 fd:00 15206830   /lib/libm-2.4.so
49d82000-49d84000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 15206831   /lib/libdl-2.4.so
49d84000-49d85000 r-xp 00001000 fd:00 15206831   /Aborted

I am using R 2.4.0 i386 on Fedora core 5, any one please help me on this?

Thank you very much.

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