[R-SIG-Mac] R.app Hangs with Any Error

[Wayne Richter]

I just upgraded R from 2.12.1 to 2.14.0. I found that an error of any  
kind in the R Console window with cause a hang with the spinning beach  
ball. The hang can be caused by something as innocuous as mean(x) if x  
does not exist. The only other reference to this problem that I could  
find is at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.mac/6587. I  
even tried completely removing R (rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/ 
R.framework /Applications/R.app) and doing a fresh install with the  
same result. I also tried with R 2.13.0 and 2.13.1 (R.app 1.4.0 and  
1.4.1, respectively, with the same problem so this has perhaps been  
going on for a while.

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0/ppc (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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


I hope this can be fixed. For me, I guess it's back to 2.12.2.