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

[David Winsemius]

> On Jan 26, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Brandon Hurr <bhive01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm having no issues loading that page. Check your firewall or try it through a tether or another connection and verify. 

Firewall was not the issue, but turning off the Avast "Web Shield" (malware filter) allowed the page to load.

Thanks;
David.
> 
> B
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:30 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > On Jan 26, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please try the latest version from
> > http://r.research.att.com/
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing being locked out of /r.research.att.com/? I have no difficulty  getting packages from most CRAN repos but on all three browsers I have tried I get a message saying "Waiting for r.research.att.com/" and a blank browser screen remains util it times out.
> 
> 
> > as there was a bug fixed recently that appears related
> > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16561
> 
> I'd like to update my GUI and thought I did so earleir this week but my logon display says I still way behind the GUI version r7108 in that bug fix notice from months ago. I'm still seeing this on booting R:
> 
> R.app GUI 1.66 (7060) x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
> 
> Thanks for any insights or theories;
> David.
> 
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> The information in this e-mail is intended only for =...{{dropped:11}}
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA