[Rd] Under Windows, Rgui and Rterm crash if one tries to close the graphic device while identify or locator are running

[Simone Giannerini]

minimal reproducible example

plot(1,1)
identify(1,1) # or locator()

now, trying to close the window by clicking on the cross of the upper
right corner causes Rgui (and Rterm) to crash.

I see the same behaviour on 2 different Windows PC (one with Win 8.1
and one with Win 10).
I did not see the problem in linux (see below)

WINDOWS **************
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.0 beta (2016-04-04 r70420)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 10586)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252  LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.2 Patched (2015-09-29 r69441)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 10240)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252  LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252
LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.2


** LINUX *****************************

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.0 Patched (2015-04-21 r68221)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=it_IT.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

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Simone Giannerini
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati"
Universita' di Bologna
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Tel: +39 051 2098262  Fax: +39 051 232153
http://www2.stat.unibo.it/giannerini/