[R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

[Marc Schwartz]

On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:

> one of my students just download mac mavericks.
> starting with the new system, R-3.0.1 in the APP is misbehaving.
> 
> enter
> TRUE <- FALSE
> (to illustrate why use of T is not a good practice)
> 
> R app gives the error message
> invalid (do_set) left-hand side to assignment
> 
> *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x7c0, cause 'memory not mapped'
> Possible actions
> 1 2 3 4
> 
> 
> The R program run in the terminal behaves correctly.
> it reports the invalid assignment and then gives a normal R prompt.
> 
> Will this happen in R-3.0.2? (yes we will download and check that).


Rich,

I get the same error message, but not the segfault, using 3.0.2 on Mavericks, using R.app:

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)

...

[R.app GUI 1.62 (6558) x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0]

which I otherwise never use.

> 
> TRUE <- FALSE
Error in TRUE <- FALSE : invalid (do_set) left-hand side to assignment
>


Regards,

Marc Schwartz