This is a known bug in gcc 3.2.1 and 3.2.2: are you using either of those? It is described in the R-admin manual: please consult it for details.
The Sun Forte compilers work, and the actual 3.2 does work for me. On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, a a wrote: > I recently built R 1.6.2 on solaris 2.8 with gcc 3.2. > Things seem to run OK, but using graphics causes R to > core dump. (For instance, by using the plot() or > hist() functions.) Sometimes I can see the graphics > drawn before it actually core dumps. The core file > shows a crash in Rf_gpptr. [...] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
