[R-SIG-Mac] R crashes when using edit() or fix()

[Simon Urbanek]

Please try the latest version from
http://r.research.att.com/
as there was a bug fixed recently that appears related
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16561

Cheers,
Simon


> On Jan 26, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Kamila Naxerova <knaxerova at partners.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> For quite a while, I haven’t been able to use the edit() or fix() functions on a data frame without R crashing instantaneously. I am running OS X El Capitan, I have the newest versions of Xcode (7.2) and XQuartz (2.7.8). I just installed “Wooden Christmas-Tree", hoping that this problem — which has been bothering me for about a year perhaps, but seemed avoidable enough  -- will go away with the new version, but it persists. 
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot paste an exact error message because the new R version does not produce one, it just freezes indefinitely. The freezing happens AFTER the data editor window popped up correctly. When I try to close it, everything comes to a standstill. With “Smooth Sidewalk”, I would usually get something along the lines of “memory not mapped” and then the usual options 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled), 2: normal R exit etc.
> 
> This problem does not occur when using edit/fix on simple vectors or strings, it’s just when the data editor gets evoked for a data frame/matrix edit that everything goes down the tubes.
> 
> Could somebody please help point me in the right direction? Sorry if I am overlooking something obvious. I googled around, searched on mailing lists many times and tried different solutions that were offered for similar problems, but I can’t seem to get it done correctly.
> 
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0   
> arch           x86_64                      
> os             darwin13.4.0                
> system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0        
> status                                     
> major          3                           
> minor          2.3                         
> year           2015                        
> month          12                          
> day            10                          
> svn rev        69752                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> nickname       Wooden Christmas-Tree 
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Kamila
> 
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