[R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

[R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:46, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 24 Oct 2013, at 17:37, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
> 
> On Mountain Lion, R 3.0.2:
> 
> TRUE = FALSE
> Error in TRUE = FALSE : invalid (do_set) left-hand side to assignment
> 
> in R.app, and in a terminal.  I also get the same on a linux machine.
> 
> I think that's a  feature, not a bug.
> 

The error is expected; it's the (occasional) ensuing segfault which is worrisome. 

Michael