For some reason, cairoDevice has been crashing the Mac for a while. It has something to do with the rotation of text through Pango. That's all I've been able to determine. Kind of tough without access to a Mac... but it DID work once upon a time..
2008/7/15 Felix Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Professor Kubovy > > I do not have a Mac to test it on, but please try this: > library(cairoDevice) > Cairo() > grid::grid.newpage() > > I expect that you will see a similar crash; if so, it would seem to be > a problem with your GTK+ libraries. I have heard that you need to have > Apple X11 installed (from MacOS system CDs?) for RGtk2 to work. But I > am not sure whether that advice is still current. > > Hope that helps. > Felix > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Michael Kubovy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Dear R-helpers, > > > > I tried the playwith packages for the first time, and it crashed R: > > > > > require(playwith) > > Loading required package: playwith > > Loading required package: lattice > > Loading required package: grid > > Loading required package: gWidgets > > Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2 > > Loading required package: RGtk2 > > Loading required package: cairoDevice > > > > > sessionInfo() > > R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) > > i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 > > > > locale: > > en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets > > methods base > > > > other attached packages: > > [1] playwith_0.9-3 cairoDevice_2.8 gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-35 > > RGtk2_2.12.5-3 gWidgets_0.0-28 > > [6] lattice_0.17-10 > > > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] gridBase_0.4-3 tools_2.7.1 > > > > Making links in per-session dir ... done > > > > > rownames(USArrests) <- state.name > > > playwith(plot(Assault ~ UrbanPop, data=USArrests, > > + xlab="Percent urban population, 1973", > > + ylab="Assault arrests (per 100,000), 1973")) > > > > *** caught bus error *** > > address 0xa8, cause 'non-existent physical address' > > > > Traceback: > > 1: .Call(L_newpage) > > 2: grid.newpage() > > 3: playNewPlot(playState) > > 4: playwith(plot(Assault ~ UrbanPop, data = USArrests, xlab = > > "Percent urban population, 1973", ylab = "Assault arrests (per > > 100,000), 1973")) > > > > Possible actions: > > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) > > 2: normal R exit > > 3: exit R without saving workspace > > 4: exit R saving workspace > > Selection: > > Selection: 3 > > > > *** caught segfault *** > > address 0x611912ca, cause 'memory not mapped' > > > > Traceback: > > 1: .Call(L_newpage) > > 2: grid.newpage() > > 3: playNewPlot(playState) > > 4: playwith(plot(Assault ~ UrbanPop, data = USArrests, xlab = > > "Percent urban population, 1973", ylab = "Assault arrests (per > > 100,000), 1973")) > > > > Possible actions: > > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) > > 2: normal R exit > > 3: exit R without saving workspace > > 4: exit R saving workspace > > Selection: 2 > > > > Mac OS details: > > System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17) > > Kernel Version: Darwin 9.4.0 > > > > > > > > _____________________________ > > Professor Michael Kubovy > > University of Virginia > > Department of Psychology > > USPS: P.O.Box 400400 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 > > Parcels: Room 102 Gilmer Hall > > McCormick Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 > > Office: B011 +1-434-982-4729 > > Lab: B019 +1-434-982-4751 > > Fax: +1-434-982-4766 > > WWW: > > http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/<http://www.people.virginia.edu/%7Emk9y/> > > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Felix Andrews / 安福立 > PhD candidate > Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre > The Fenner School of Environment and Society > The Australian National University (Building 48A), ACT 0200 > Beijing Bag, Locked Bag 40, Kingston ACT 2604 > http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/ > 3358 543D AAC6 22C2 D336 80D9 360B 72DD 3E4C F5D8 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
