> > My newly installed R-2.1.0 apparently doesn't like forward > slashes in > > filenames: > > > > > R.version.string > > [1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18" > > > plotfile <- "\home\mean_monthly_stl.eps" > > > postscript(plotfile) > > > plotfile <- "/home/mean_monthly_stl.eps" > > > postscript(plotfile) > > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): > 0x098e7180 > > *** Abort > > > > I would conjecture that it has to do with the fact that you > do not have write permission in /home! The backslashed > version just creates homemean_monthly_stl.eps in the current > directory. If you substitute /tmp for /home, the problem goes > away (provided you're on some kind of Unix/Linux -- you > didn't say). It's still a bug of course.
Yes, that was it. When I first came across the problem, I had a typo in my longish pathname. For the post to R Help I wanted to simplify the problem as much as possible, and as luck would have it, I picked a shorter pathname that was not writeable by me. Thanks, Scott ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
