[R-SIG-Mac] Rmpfr crashes on Mac

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 28/11/2021 7:05 a.m., Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> I checked, and I also get the crash in Rstudio.
> In Rgui, it works.

I don't get the crash, using R 4.1.0 in MacOS 10.15.7, with the same 
Rmpfr version in RStudio or R.app.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
>> On 27.11.2021, at 21:46, Dev Chakraborty <dpc10ster using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I used package Rmpfr ca. 2017 and it worked fine. The latest version
>> (0.8-7) causes R (running under RStudio) to crash. A simple example is:
>>
>> library(Rmpfr)
>> x1 <- mpfr(-50, 200)
>> x2 <- mpfr(-50.1, 200)
>>
>> Which gives the message:
>>
>> R Session Aborted
>> R encountered a fatal error
>> The session was terminated
>> Start New Session
>>
>> I am using R version 4.1.1 on a Mac running MacOS 12.0.1. and an older iMac
>> running 10.15.7. The problem occurs with both machines.
>>
>> When I install from the CRAN archive file  Rmpfr_0.6-1.tar.gz (the version
>> of the package around 2017, corresponding to the last time I used it) the
>> problem goes away.
>>
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