I recently started getting what I can best describe as a memory "race"
condition in my R

( OSX 10..5.8)

It started a while back with R2.11, so I upgraded to 2.12 and have the same
issue

System Updates have been installed. Then  2.12 was installed. Updates for
X11 installed.

The phenomena appears like this. Starting R (64bit) from the R.app icon R
launches and consumes
roughly 50mb of memory. If I open a script and merely highlight text in that
window the memory consumption
runs up to 1.3Gb and the system grinds to a halt. I even lose window focus
temporarily. After a few minutes
the memory is released and I get cursor control back. Then it will race
again,

Running R from the terminal  R --vanilla did not exhibit these issues.

Any ideas?

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