[R-SIG-Mac] [External] Rmpfr crashes on Mac

Sun Nov 28 21:36:19 CET 2021

I still get the crash. I tried to recreate your commands on my machine
(macOS Monterey, Version 12.0.1). Here is a summary; further details are
below.

1. Installing from CRAN downloaded file Rmpfr_0.8-7.tar.gz failed, see
further details.
2. Therefore I had to instal the binary file from CRAN, see further details.
3. Loaded library(Rmpfr), see further details
4. Ran the two commands at the RStudio console:
x <- mpfr(-50, 2000)
y <- mpfr(-50.1, 2000)
This caused a crash.
5. Restarted my system and ran:

version
               _
platform       x86_64-apple-darwin17.0
arch           x86_64
os             darwin17.0
system         x86_64, darwin17.0
status
major          4
minor          1.1
year           2021
month          08
day            10
svn rev        80725
language       R
version.string R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
nickname       Kick Things

6. Details of my machine (system report)
 Model Name: MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,5
  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores: 4
  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
  L3 Cache: 6 MB
  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
  Memory: 16 GB
  System Firmware Version: 428.40.10.0.0
  OS Loader Version: 540.40.4~45
  SMC Version (system): 2.30f2
  Serial Number (system): C02PTX43G8WP
  Hardware UUID: 85D23F6B-40E1-5D82-BF89-909EF7141116
  Provisioning UDID: 85D23F6B-40E1-5D82-BF89-909EF7141116

Other details
1.
install.packages("~/Downloads/Rmpfr_0.8-7.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
"source")
* installing *source* package ‘Rmpfr’ ...
** package ‘Rmpfr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
checking for gcc... clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.13
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.13 accepts -g... yes
checking for clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.13 option to accept ISO C89...
none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.13
-E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking mpfr.h usability... no
checking mpfr.h presence... no
checking for mpfr.h... no
configure: error: Header file mpfr.h not found; maybe use
--with-mpfr-include=INCLUDE_PATH
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Rmpfr’
* removing
‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/Rmpfr’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘/Users/Dev/Downloads/Rmpfr_0.8-7.tar.gz’ had
non-zero exit status

2.
install.packages("Rmpfr")
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.1/Rmpfr_0.8-7.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1556368 bytes (1.5 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.5 MB

The downloaded binary packages are in
/var/folders/d1/mx6dcbzx3v39r260458z2b200000gn/T//Rtmpfbzg9i/downloaded_packages
>

3.
library(Rmpfr)
Loading required package: gmp

Attaching package: ‘gmp’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    %*%, apply, crossprod, matrix, tcrossprod

C code of R package 'Rmpfr': GMP using 64 bits per limb

Attaching package: ‘Rmpfr’

The following object is masked from ‘package:gmp’:

    outer

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    dbinom, dgamma, dnbinom, dnorm, dpois, dt, pnorm

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    cbind, pmax, pmin, rbind

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 12:53 PM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu>
wrote:

> Works normally in R-4.1.2 with Rmpfr_0.8-7 on Macintosh
> aarch64-apple-darwin20
> I am running inside Emacs using ESS
>
> > packageVersion("Rmpfr")
> [1] ‘0.8.7’
> > library(Rmpfr)
> Loading required package: gmp
>
> Attaching package: ‘gmp’
>
> The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:
>
>     %*%, apply, crossprod, matrix, tcrossprod
>
> C code of R package 'Rmpfr': GMP using 64 bits per limb
>
>
> Attaching package: ‘Rmpfr’
>
> The following object is masked from ‘package:gmp’:
>
>     outer
>
> The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:
>
>     dbinom, dgamma, dnbinom, dnorm, dpois, dt, pnorm
>
> The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:
>
>     cbind, pmax, pmin, rbind
>
> > x1 <- mpfr(-50, 200)
> > x1
> 1 'mpfr' number of precision  200   bits
> [1] -50
> > x2 <- mpfr(-50.1, 200)
> > x2
> 1 'mpfr' number of precision  200   bits
> [1] -50.10000000000000142108547152020037174224853515625
> > version
>                _
> platform       aarch64-apple-darwin20
> arch           aarch64
> os             darwin20
> system         aarch64, darwin20
> status
> major          4
> minor          1.2
> year           2021
> month          11
> day            01
> svn rev        81115
> language       R
> version.string R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
> nickname       Bird Hippie
> >
>
> > On Nov 27, 2021, at 15:46, 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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