[R-SIG-Mac] 64-bit build of R crashes while idle

[Rob Goedman]

Hi Simon,

Not sure if I use it as much/often as Steve, but 64bit R.app is up in  
an open space virtually all the time on my system using a recent daily  
'your' R and the GUI I build with XCode. Usually for several (2 to 3)  
days, used at least several times a day. If I restart R.app, like this  
morning, it'll select the latest daily build. Right now R 2.8.0 GUI  
1.26 unknown (5259).

All packages have been installed from sources. In the past that gave  
me some issues (as I privately mentioned to you). But since then I  
have tried not to mix binaries and sources.

Difficulties are in the well known 'suspects', Gtk2, Graphviz, rgl,  
ggobi, but otherwise I've seen very few problems.

On your system, does R-2.9 build in Xcode?

Rob


On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Steve,
>
> thanks for the report. At a first glance from the crash log it seems  
> possibly like a problem in the OS and not R itself. Note that 64-bit  
> Cocoa applications are still rare on Leopard, so I'm not sure how  
> stable GUI applications are in 64-bit. As Brian pointed out R itself  
> is solid in 64-bit, so if you have issues, you can always run 64-bit  
> R on the command line (Terminal).
>
> Nonetheless any feedback on 64-bit R.app is highly appreciated since  
> not many users appear to use it. Clearly, the more feedback we get  
> the better we can make it.
>
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:25 , Steve Lianoglou wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Early last week, I installed the 64-bit leopard build for R  
>> provided here: http://r.research.att.com/
>>
>> I've realized that when R.app is running in the background (and  
>> sitting idle), it eventually beach-balls. When I switch over to see  
>> what's happening, I see that R is crashed, and it's giving me  
>> options to:
>>
>> * abort
>> * save workspace then abort
>> * 1 or 2 others
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't copy the issue down exactly because I hastily quit  
>> it and reinstalled R 2.7.2 to get back to work. I'm not sure if  
>> it's R itself, or the R.app GUI ... I can mess around w/ it a bit  
>> later next week once I get passed some deadlines.
>>
>> I wonder if it's the R.app gui that's the problem, and not R  
>> itself. I'm running R 2.8 via the terminal now to see if it  
>> eventually hangs/core-dumps/whatever.
>>
>> Are other people working with 64-bit R/R.apphaving these issues? Is  
>> the best path to using 64-bit R via custom compilation? Maybe  
>> ignore R.app for now? What are you folks doing?
>>
>
> Custom compilation is not really necessary. If there are any issues  
> with our build then it is likely to be present in all builds.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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