[R-SIG-Mac] Problems with R-4.4.2 in MacOS Sequoia with Intel chip

[peter dalgaard]

A couple of questions:

- Is it the GUI or R itself that crashes? (i.e, can you run  R in Terminal an still crash it? or even RStudio?)
- Is it a Sequoia issue as such? I'm not seeing issues on Monterey/4.4.1 (I'm a little superstitious about upgrading production machines mid-semester and some of my machines are too old for Sequoia.) The source tarballs 4.4.2 were built and tested on Intel/Monterey.

- pd

> On 21 Nov 2024, at 16:07 , Gilberto Camara <gilberto.camara using inpe.br> wrote:
> 
> Dear Simon 
> 
> Since your message last week, I have been trying to reproduce the errors I am finding with R-4.4.2 in an Intel MacMini to build a minimum testable example. I am not succeeding in doing so.
> 
> The error is a total collapse of R and occurs in a random fashion. Sometimes calling another package (e.g. “xgboost”) produces the error. Sometimes making a simple operation in a data table leads to error. 
> 
> The problem affects only Intel-based MacMinis with R-4.4.2. Running MacMinis with R-4.2.3 work will. All is also well with R-4.4.2 in Macs with ARM, in Windows and in Lunix/Ubuntu and Linux/Fedora. 
> 
> One issue I noticed is that the default C++ compiler in MacOS Sequoia is compatible with c++-17, while the one used by CRAN is version c++-14.00.
> 
> Do you have any ideas on how to proceed? Any test data set I could use? 
> 
> Many thanks 
> Gilberto
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> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 12 Nov 2024, at 18:53, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Gilberto,
>> 
>> please read https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html first, in particular about how to report a problem. Just saying "cannot execute my scripts" is not helpful at all - please provide exact output, how it differs between the versions etc. For example, the problem may be in your code or packages used - we have no way of knowing without the necessary additional information.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 13, 2024, at 9:44 AM, Gilberto Camara <gilberto.camara using inpe.br> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear R-SIG-MAC
>>> 
>>> I have problems with R-4.4.2 in the latest Mac OS Sequoia (15.1) version in a Mac mini with an Intel chip. R-4.4.2 cannot execute my scripts. No such problems occur with R-4.4.2 in MacBook with ARM chip. 
>>> 
>>> I went back to R-4.2.3 and all is well in my environment (MacMini, Intel, MacOS X 15.1). 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I will try to provide an MWE to help those of you who know a lot about Mac OS X.
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> Gilberto
>>> 
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>>> Senior Researcher
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>>> National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
>>> https://gilbertocamara.org/
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