[R-SIG-Mac] R Console (R.app) crashes - on Mac OS - caught segfault * address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'

[Christoph Napierala]

On 30.12.16 19:59, David Winsemius wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Christoph Napierala <napierala at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> macOS Sierra - V 10.12.2
>> R 3.3.2 GUI 1.68 Mavericks build (7288)
>>
>> I encountered an issue with the R console crashing after having saved the image. Normally I work with R-Studio which still runs "perfectly".
>> The following report was generated after having deleted R and R-Studio and cleaned libraries. The following message was generated:
>>
>>> Blockquote
>> *** caught segfault ***
>> address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'
>>
>>    Possible actions:
>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
>> 2: normal R exit
>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
>> 4: exit R saving workspace
>>
>> 2016-12-30 14:57:47.245 R[1475:47927] -[_CUIInternalLinkRendition setRuleThickness:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7ffeb66745d0
>>
>> 2016-12-30 14:57:47.247 R[1475:47927] *** RController: caught ObjC exception while processing system events. Update to the latest GUI version and consider reporting this properly (see FAQ) if it persists and is not known.
> The latest GUI version at http://r.research.att.com/ is:
>
> R-GUI-7299-3.3-mavericks-Debug.dmg
I tried but while installing I definitely do not get the current version?
>
>
>> *** reason: -[_CUIInternalLinkRendition setRuleThickness:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7ffeb66745d0
>>
>> *** name: NSInvalidArgumentException, info: (null)
>>
>> *** Version: R 3.3.2 (71607) R.app R 3.3.2 GUI 1.68 Mavericks build
>> Consider saving your work soon in case this develops into a problem.
> You should probably reinstall the whole bundle since your version of R is not uptodate either:
>
> R-3.3-branch
> 3.3.2 Patched
> (2016/12/28, r71859)
>
> The installer bundles at either of these sites should be the same:
>
> http://r.research.att.com/mavericks/R-3.3-branch/R-3.3-branch-mavericks.pkg
> https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-3.3.2.pkg
>
I tried but while installing I definitely do not get the current version?
AND I do get German as language in the R I have downloaded and 
re-installed? Something is really odd.
>
>> And then I am offered to select one of the above options and the crash reproduces.
>>
>> Thanks for any support.
>>
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> David Winsemius
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