[R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Oct 24 19:02:15 CEST 2013


To clarify, I think the issue is that R.app from 3.0.1 crashes on this 
error (and maybe any error) on Mavericks for the temple.edu student.

We need to see if 3.0.2 does so too, but I see no change in the code 
which would lead me to expect a difference.


On 24/10/2013 17:46, Federico Calboli 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.
>
> BW
>
> F
>
>
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