R devel - Jan 2006 - standard install on OS 10.3.9 crashes on start without useful diagnostics (PR#8500)

Full_Name: Bob Donahue
Version: 2.2
OS: Mac OS 10.3.9
Submission from: (NULL) (204.152.13.26)


That's pretty much it.  I did the most basic install possible, tried running
the
package through the GUI and on the command line, it crashed hard, immediately,
with absolutely NO useful information as to WHY it crashed.

To reproduce:
1) get the installer for OS X
2) install in the default places
3) run
4) watch it crash with no useful diagnostics

This won't actually help you at all, but I used the standard install on OS 
10.3.9 (Powerbook G4) just last week without any problems.

On the other hand, my install was on a machine that had previously had 
other versions of R.

 	-thomas

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, donahue at skepsis.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Bob Donahue
> Version: 2.2
> OS: Mac OS 10.3.9
> Submission from: (NULL) (204.152.13.26)
>
>
> That's pretty much it.  I did the most basic install possible, tried
running the
> package through the GUI and on the command line, it crashed hard,
immediately,
> with absolutely NO useful information as to WHY it crashed.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1) get the installer for OS X
> 2) install in the default places
> 3) run
> 4) watch it crash with no useful diagnostics
>
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle