[R-SIG-Mac] quartz crash

[Luca Scrucca]

Dear R-Mac-users,

I got a crash using strwidth() on a quartz device. For example:

> par(family = "mono")
> strwidth(c("a", "aaa"))

  *** caught bus error ***
address 0x10, cause 'non-existent physical address'

Traceback:
  1: strwidth(text)

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection:

Please consider that not setting family to "mono" will result in no crash 
when strwidth() is called. Also, using the x11 device works ok.
For example:

> x11()
> par(family = "mono")
> strwidth(c("a", "aaa"))
[1] 6.425911e-297 1.927773e-296

I installed the R binary kindly provided at CRAN, as well as binary 
packages. The OSX is Leopard 10.5.2.
These are my R session infos
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1

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

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

other attached packages:
[1] RColorBrewer_1.0-2 rgl_0.77

Thanks,

Luca


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Luca Scrucca
Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica
Sezione di Statistica
Università  degli Studi di Perugia
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E-mail:   luca at stat.unipg.it
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