[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0 instability (G5 iMac, Tiger 10.4.11)

[Ken Knoblauch]

Lawrie Conole <lconole <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I've been trying to use R 2.10.0 in Tiger on a G5 iMac, but it
> repeatedly crashes and I went back to 2.9.2 - no problems.  
Reinstalled
> 2.10.0 and away we go crashing again.  Whilst I have 
quite a bit of 
> experience in using R, I know next to nothing about 
'under the hood' 
> aspects, so de-bugging this is probably beyond me.
> Back to 2.9.2 ...
> 
> I've included the sessionInfo() and crashlog(s), below the 
co.var script
> 
> _______________________________
> 
> co.var<-function(x)(100*sd(x)/mean(x))
> co.var(x)
> 
> _______________________________
> 
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/
en_AU.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
>
> ______________________________
> 
> Date/Time:      2009-11-13 11:00:11.795 +1100
> OS Version:     10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
> Report Version: 4
> 
> Command: R
> Path:    /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
> Parent:  WindowServer [64]
> 
> Version: R 2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32-bit (5511)
> 
> PID:    305
> Thread: 0
This looks similar to the problem that I reported where there 
seems to be
some conflict about the GUI version indicated in the crash report 
for R 2.10 Tiger
version.

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-November/006750.html

but to which there hasn't been a response yet.  So far, I cleaned all 
old versions
of R off my system and re-installed from scratch.  Tried downloading the 
tar.gz version and installing that, but lately the link to the GUI.app only on
the daily patch page seems to be dead.  I haven't tried to compile the GUI
by hand yet, next on my list, but maybe this independent report will
 attract more attention.  

best,

Ken

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