[ESS] R crash on ESS

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 21:22:35 CET 2013


This is a complex issue at a much deeper layers than ESS code is
positioned. Most likely it is a bug in maxent-rjava interaction which
shows in emacs sub-processes only. We have a peculiar sigfault bug on
github that shows only in emacs/ESS/Mac, and technically has nothing to
do with ESS. This one seems similar.

I use rgdal but the instructions that you gave are not clear to me. When
exactly the sigfault occurs?


Could you try with plain terminal "R --no-readline --no-save" (or
whatever your custom R command is for running from ess) and then
library(ESSR)?

Thanks, 

   Vitalie

 >>> Ahmadou Dicko on Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:46:52 +0000 wrote:

 > Thanks Rodney, I'll try to dig further.
 > Is the first time I encounter this type of error but I'll see If I can
 > reproduce it using only R package that doesn't require extra libs.
 > I'll let you know as soon as find something more precise.

 > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:

 >> On 10/28/2013 07:45 AM, Ahmadou Dicko wrote:
 >> 
 >>> Hi,
 >>> 
 >>> I have a little problem with a script that used to work fine with ESS
 >>> 13-05.
 >>> This is smallest reproductible example I know and it requires to download
 >>> a
 >>> jar file (maxent,jar<http://www.cs.**princeton.edu/~schapire/**maxent/<http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/maxent/>>)>> and
 >>> 
 >>> copy this jar file it on the folder ./java  in the R dismo package.
 >>> 
 >>> Everytime I run this script using ESS I have a segfault but it runs
 >>> smoothly using Rstudio and the terminal  :
 >>> 
 >>> require(dismo)
 >>> require(rgdal)
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> Dear Ahmadou:
 >> 
 >> This might be an ESS bug.  I can't tell yet.  Could you try
 >> to narrow it down a bit more?  I don't use rgdal
 >> (or rJava, etc.) since they require other libraries (i.e. not just R
 >> packages and more than the download above).
 >> 
 >> --
 >> Rodney Sparapani, PhD
 >> Manager of Statistical & Computational Operations
 >> Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
 >> Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA
 >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/**rodneysparapani<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneysparapani>>



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