[R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Oct 24 19:45:35 CEST 2013


On 24/10/2013 18:38, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 1:02 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.
>>
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> -- Release Version 1.62 (6558) - supplied with R 3.0.2 --
>
> Last-update: 2013-06-26
> *	Compile Rinit.m with -O0 since ObjC optimizations
> 	break in Mac OS X 10.9 DP

Ah thanks: I only looked at changes in the code.

>
>
>
>>
>> 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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>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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