[R-SIG-Mac] Rmpfr crashes on Mac

[Erich Neuwirth]

I am using R 4.1.2
Rmpfr 0.8.7
MacOS 11.6.1
(x86 Machine)

> On 28.11.2021, at 13:12, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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