[Rd] (PR#14181) Error description not prompted but R crashes instead

[simon.urbanek at r-project.org]

On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:04 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Is this from the Mac GUI R.app.  You are asked to send bug reports  
> on that to the R-sig-mac list, as this is almost certainly not a bug  
> in R but R.app, a separate project.
>

Even worse, this is a known bug long fixed in R 2.10.1 and hence a  
doubly pointless report ...
Cheers,
Simon


> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, pdemoulin at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Full_Name: Philippe Demoulin
>> Version: R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
>> OS: OSX 10.4.11 on PPC
>> Submission from: (NULL) (80.236.193.215)
>>
>>
>> Test:
>> At the prompt, just type (without quotes) "> x=1:3". Please note  
>> the redundant
>> ">" explictly keyed in for simulating the error
>>
>> On my daughter MacMini G4 PPC 10.4.11 JSE 1.5, an normal error  
>> "Unexpected
>> character >" is issued.
>>
>> But on my iMac 10.4.11 PPC JSE 1.5 (so, same environment), R crashes:
>> Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
>> Codes:      KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000020
>>
>> Thread 0 Crashed:
>> 0   libobjc.A.dylib          	0x90a410f8 objc_msgSend + 24
>> 1   org.R-project.R          	0x0000dae4 Re_RBusy + 60  
>> (Rcallbacks.m:178)
>> 2   libR.dylib               	0x003cdcf0 R_ReplDLLdo1 + 64
>> 3   org.R-project.R          	0x00018358 run_REngineRmainloop + 368
>> (Rinit.m:521)
>> 4   org.R-project.R          	0x00010a0c -[REngine runREPL] + 484
>> (REngine.m:181)
>> 5   org.R-project.R          	0x00002a38 main + 1040 (main.m:140)
>> 6   org.R-project.R          	0x000025ac _start + 760
>> 7   org.R-project.R          	0x000022b0 start + 48
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Philippe Demoulin, Tilff, Belgium
>>
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