[R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

[Tim Bates]

I can confirm that R.app from 3.0.1 crashes on any error on Mavericks, and 3.0.2 doesn’t (for me, running on an iMac ~ 2010)

On 24 Oct 2013, at 6:02 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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