[R-SIG-Mac] dev tarball segfault on load (was Re: R devel == 4.0.0?)

[Timothy Bates]

Hi: Downloaded the developer version… tar yields an error, and R.app segfaults on load:

tried tar with both the r-project instruction:

tar fvxz ~/Downloads/R-devel-el-capitan-sa-x86_64.tar.gz  -C /

and (equivalent) suggestion from RSwitch.app

tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/R-devel-el-capitan-sa-x86_64.tar.gz

cheers, tim


tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/R-devel-el-capitan-sa-x86_64.tar.gz
…
x Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/PrivateHeaders/R_ext/Visibility.h
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.


On load R.app

 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x2e9e8, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
 1: .Call(C_R_initMethodDispatch, as.environment(where))
 2: initMethodDispatch(where)
 3: fun(libname, pkgname)
 4: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
 5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
 6: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
 7: tryCatch(fun(libname, pkgname), error = identity)
 8: runHook(".onLoad", env, package.lib, package)
 9: loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)
10: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
11: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
12: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
13: tryCatch({    attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc    ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)    env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps, exclude, include.only)}, error = function(e) {    P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e)))         paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L])    else ""    msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:\n %s",         sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e))    if (logical.return)         message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA)    else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)})
14: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,     warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, quietly = quietly, mask.ok = mask.ok,     exclude = exclude, include.only = include.only, attach.required = attach.required)
15: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
16: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
17: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
18: tryCatch(library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,     logical.return = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, quietly = quietly,     mask.ok = mask.ok, exclude = exclude, include.only = include.only,     attach.required = attach.required), error = function(e) e)
19: require(pkg, quietly = TRUE, warn.conflicts = FALSE, character.only = TRUE)
20: .OptRequireMethods()

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace