I can repeatably crash R (segfault) by doing
n <- 10 z <- data.frame(a=1:n,b=1:n) View(z) and then hitting the "End" key on my keyboard. I haven't got debugging going yet, but running under gdb (without debugging symbols) does give this: 0xb7b63583 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) i486-pc-linux-gnu [Ubuntu Gutsy] locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel