[R-SIG-Mac] x11/plot issue on Mac OSX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 23/01/2013 02:40, m p wrote:
> Hello,
> I have R running on my Mac OSX 10.7.5 under X11 and when I interactively in
> R issue x11() and plot(..) it exits with messages below.
> I can display multiple image formats including xwd.
> Is that fixable under X11, how?

What do you think seq(1:10) does?  Add pointless typing strokes ....

This works on my machine: that suggests the problem is with the X11 
setup on your machine, maybe missing fonts given the traceback.  Please 
run this under a debugger to find out more.

> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> R> x <- seq(1:10)
> R> y <- seq(1:10)
> R> plot(x,y)
>
> *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x10, cause 'memory not mapped'
>
> Traceback:
>   1: axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...)
>   2: Axis.default(...)
>   3: Axis(...)
>   4: localAxis(if (is.null(y)) xy$x else x, side = 1, ...)
>   5: plot.default(x, y)
>   6: plot(x, y)
>
> Possible actions:
> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> 2: normal R exit
> 3: exit R without saving workspace
> 4: exit R saving workspace
>
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