dtrenkler@nts6.oec.uni-osnabrueck.de
2000-Mar-07 10:00 UTC
[Rd] R-crash using cut-and-paste (PR#472)
Dear R-Team, sorry for bugging (:-)), it's me again. In the FAQ coming along with the R distribution it reads: If R executes an illegal instruction, or dies with an operating system error message that indicates a problem in the program (as opposed to something like "disk full"), then it is certainly a bug. This encourages me to describe a crash I encountered a few minutes ago. I had written a function in an editor, copied it to the clip-board and tried to establish it in my workspace (cut and paste). Suddenly I got the following message form Windows NT (sorry it's german): Die Anweisung "0x7762d4be" verweist auf Speicher in "0x0247c000". Der Vorgang "read" konnte nicht auf dem Speicher durchgeführt werden. Klicken Sie auf "OK um die Anwendung zu beenden. Rgui.exe-Fehler in Anwendung There are very technical terms which I hope will be translated such that it makes sense to you: The instruction "0x7762d4be" points to memory in "0x0247c000". "read" could not be carried out in memory. Click on "OK to stop the program. Clicking on OK caused R to close (and of course the most recent work was lost) --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = Windows arch = x86 os = Win32 system = x86, Win32 status = major = 1 minor = 0.0 year = 2000 month = February day = 29 language = R Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 3 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base Regards, *** D.Trenkler *** ===================================================================Dietrich Trenkler (trenkler@oec.uni-osnabrueck.de) Statistik / Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung Universitaet Osnabrueck Rolandstrasse 8 Phone: +49(0) 541-969-2753 D-49069 Osnabrueck Fax : +49(0) 541-969-2745 GERMANY =================================================================== -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 dtrenkler@nts6.oec.uni-osnabrueck.de wrote:> Dear R-Team, > > sorry for bugging (:-)), it's me again. In the FAQ coming along with the > R distribution it reads: > > If R executes an illegal instruction, or dies with an operating system > error message that indicates a problem in the program (as opposed to > something like "disk full"), then it is certainly a bug. > > This encourages me to describe a crash I encountered a few minutes ago. > > I had written a function in an editor, copied it to the clip-board and > tried to establish it in my workspace (cut and paste). Suddenly I got > the following message form Windows NT (sorry it's german):[...] How big was the function you were trying to paste in? There are distinct limits to such cut-and-paste, not all of which are under our control. To quote more of the FAQ: Please include an example that reproduces the problem, preferably the simplest one you have found. Without such an example, there is nothing we can do to help. As a general work-around, you will find it much easier to use source() to load in sizeable functions than cut-and-paste. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._