[R-SIG-Mac] R crashes on preferences screen

[Rainer M Krug]

John Magnotti <john.magnotti at gmail.com> writes:

> Going to the preferences screen in R.app (Command + , or
> R->preferences) and selecting any of the icons causes R to crash with
> a segfault. If I click any the tabs at the top of the preferences
> window R doesn't crash, but if I go back to the  "show all" tab and
> choose an option it causes an immediate failure.
>
> I'm running OS X 10.8.5, sessionInfo pasted below

I can confirm this, but only when selecting the icons in the 
"Show All" section. Selecting the top ones, it works.

Cheers,

Rainer


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| > sessionInfo()
| R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
| Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-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     
| > version
|                _                           
| platform       x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0   
| arch           x86_64                      
| os             darwin10.8.0                
| system         x86_64, darwin10.8.0        
| status                                     
| major          3                           
| minor          0.1                         
| year           2013                        
| month          05                          
| day            16                          
| svn rev        62743                       
| language       R                           
| version.string R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
| nickname       Good Sport                  
`----


> 
>
> Thoughts?
>
> John
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-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
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Rainer M. Krug

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