Hi, I downloaded 2.8.1 and tried to compile it using gcc 3.4.6. (simple install, just ./configure, make, make check, make install)
I found that it compiled and went through the tests fine. The foreign library, however, that seems to be segfaulting on me (see output below). I did see an old posting about a similar problem, but there was no resolution. Have other people experienced this at all? Tia! -y > library(foreign) *** caught segfault *** address fe899a60, cause 'invalid permissions' Traceback: 1: .C("spss_init", PACKAGE = "foreign") 2: fun(...) 3: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler) 4: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1]]) 5: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers) 6: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) if (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1]], quote(doTryCatch))) call <- sys.call(-4) dcall <- deparse(call)[1] prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75 msg <- conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1]] if (14 + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1], type = "w") > LONG) prefix <- paste(prefix, "\n ", sep = "") } else prefix <- "Error : " msg <- paste(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "") .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1])) if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { cat(msg, file = stderr()) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) } invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error"))}) 7: try({ fun(...) NULL}) 8: runHook(".onLoad", package, env, package.lib, package) 9: loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source = keep.source) 10: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler) 11: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1]]) 12: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers) 13: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) if (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1]], quote(doTryCatch))) call <- sys.call(-4) dcall <- deparse(call)[1] prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75 msg <- conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1]] if (14 + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1], type = "w") > LONG) prefix <- paste(prefix, "\n ", sep = "") } else prefix <- "Error : " msg <- paste(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "") .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1])) if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { cat(msg, file = stderr()) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) } invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error"))}) 14: try({ ns <- loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source = keep.source) dataPath <- file.path(which.lib.loc, package, "data") env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, dataPath = dataPath)}) 15: library(foreign) 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: 4 [[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.