[R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

[Marc Schwartz]

Rich, 

Just for clarification, I was referring to never using R.app, since I use ESS. 

Of course, I don't use the assignment statement either... :-)

Regards,

Marc

On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:

> of course you never use it.  it won't work.
> the point of the email is that writing an invalid statement should
> trigger only an error message.  It should not trigger the segfault.
> 
> It looks like the segfault is specific to 3.0.1 since your and Marc both report
> that you don't see the segfault on 3.0.2
> 
> I will tell the student to upgrade to 3.0.2 immediately.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:46 PM, 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.
>> 
>> BW
>> 
>> F
> 
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