As you suspected it does not happen for me on Windows XP.
Any chance you could get some useful debugging information from Dr MinGW
(see the rw-FAQ)?
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (If this only happens in Win 98, I'm sure I could live with it. Just
> may be helpful to report it, I hope.)
>
> Start up R GUI, then
>
> > plot(1:4,1:4) # then close manually by clicking X
> > plot(1:4,1:4) # ditto
> > methods(plot)
>
> sometimes produces normal output and even the following prompt,
> but then crashes immediately, or more often, crashes immediately with
> no output.
>
> I can do any number of plot() -methods() pairs, just not more than one
> plot followed by methods(). I've tried plot x 2 followed by several other
> functions without problems - methods() is the only one I know to fail.
>
> For the above sequence the errror output is:
>
> RGUI caused an invalid page fault in
> module R.DLL at 0167:6b57d300.
> Registers:
> EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=6b57d300 EFLGS=00010202
> EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0073c648 EBP=0073c660
> ECX=00000101 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=2a17
> EDX=019e1e38 ES=016f EDI=6b5f0000 GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> 8b 10 83 fa 30 74 19 83 fa 50 74 14 89 45 08 8b
> Stack dump:
> 00000000 bff741f7 00000000 bff54e68 0001dce4 00000000 0073c6a0 6b57d470
> 00000001 0073c688 0073c6d4 0073c6ee 0000000d c01c0001 0073c6b8 6b57c18a
>
> >From bug.report("no connected email") just before the crash line:
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
> platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> arch = i386
> os = mingw32
> system = i386, mingw32
> status =
> major = 1
> minor = 8.0
> year = 2003
> month = 10
> day = 08
> language = R
>
> Windows 98 SE 4.10 (build 2222) A
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva, package:modreg,
> package:nls, package:ts, Autoloads, package:base
>
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