Hello all,

I recently noticed that the MacOSX binary of the mapdata package ver 2.1-3
wasn't available.

The mapdata package is a useful extension for the maps package, providing
higher-resolution map data.

In contacting package maintainer Ray Brownrigg, (Ray.Brownrigg at
ecs.vuw.ac.nz), I'm told that he is willing to make the fixes necessary,
however does not have the Mac resources to track the bug causing the
problems.

In looking at the log, I get the impression that the actual problem is
minor, in that a problem occurs in checking the examples.

Here's a copy-and-paste from the logs below.

==================================================================
checking examples ... ERROR
Running examples in 'mapdata-Ex.R' failed.
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### * china
>
> flush(stderr()); flush(stdout())
>
> ### Name: china
> ### Title: China Map
> ### Aliases: china chinaMapEnv
> ### Keywords: datasets
>
> ### ** Examples
>
> map('china')

*** caught segfault ***
address 0x30010073, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: .C("maptype", PACKAGE = "maps", as.character(mapbase), integer(1))
2: maptype(database)
3: map("china")
aborting ...
==================================================================

Does anyone in the Mac group have the skills and time to figure this out and
contact Ray about a solution?

Sorry, I should really try to do this myself, but I'm still very new at
this...

Thanks,

Jooil

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