Jeffrey,
can you send me the crash log, please? (Utilities ->Console->User Reports). Thanks, Simon > On Sep 30, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Jeffrey Rosenthal <j...@math.toronto.edu> wrote: > > Hello. I often use R from the command-line (i.e. just typing "R") within the > "Terminal" application on my MacBook Pro laptop. And sometimes I get a > sudden strange error "*** caught segfault *** address 0x10, cause 'memory not > mapped'" (after which R allows me to abort/exit/etc, but not to continue). > It occurs when using the arrow or delete keys (perhaps related to readline?). > After much testing, I have found a very simple reproducible minimal example. > Namely, if I start R from the command line, and then type "plot(0)", and then > type any character (e.g. "a") and then the delete key, then it always > triggers this error. Does this error occur for anyone else? Any ideas how > to fix it? > > I know that this problem is quite specific to my Mac laptop set-up; it does > not occur on my iMac nor on my friend's Mac. On the other hand, I did try > upgrading R and that did not fix it. My sessionInfo() output follows. I am > *not* saving R history, nor setting R_SAVEHIST, and I do *not* have any > .Rhistory or .Rapp.history file in my directory. Thank you very much for any > suggestions! > > -------------------------------------------- > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit) > Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 > > Matrix products: default > BLAS: > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib > LAPACK: > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib > > locale: > [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] compiler_4.0.2 > > ------------------------------------------------ > Jeffrey S. Rosenthal > Professor of Statistics, University of Toronto > Web site: http://probability.ca/jeff/ > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac