[R-sig-Geo] library fails to load in linux

[Harold-Jeffrey Ship]

I have Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. I just installed R and want to install 
spatstat. This is the R information:

R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) -- "World-Famous Astronaut"
Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

When I try to install spatstat things look fine at first until it tries to 
verify the installation by loading the library. It crashes, with the below 
error message (snipped).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

installing to /home/harold/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/spatstat/libs
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** demo
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f3895976e57]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7f3895976e20]
/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(+0xc9825)[0x7f3895f11825]
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