Thanks both Marc and David for the generous and quick help!
On 10.6, removing .RData solved the problem, while on 10.8 a clean install made
everything happy!
Thanks again for the great help!
Gang
On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Are you running R from the terminal or via any GUIs?
>
> If the latter, try running from the terminal to see if you can replicate the
> behavior. If it runs fine, it may suggest that you have a GUI app conflict.
>
> You can try running "R --vanilla" from the CLI to see if that resolves any
> issues. If it does, you might also check for a ~/.Rprofile file that contains
> any settings/options that may be problematic. Also remove any ~/.RData files
> for similar reasons.
>
> If none of the above help, I would be sure that before installing 3.0.1
> again, that you completely remove the R installation directory tree, which is
> typically:
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework
>
> as well as any R related GUI's that are in:
>
> /Applications
>
> just to be sure that you are starting with a clean install.
>
> Is the program that you are running small enough to post here to be able to
> try it on another system? If not, can you distill the program down to the
> smallest possible set of lines that causes the segfault?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Gang Chen <gangc...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion! The hash value for my download does match the one
>> listed on the webpage.
>>
>> A further complication for R 3.0 is that a program I wrote before works fine
>> with R 3.0 on Mac 10.6, but gives me "Segmentation fault" error with R 3.0
>> on Mac 10.8:
>>
>> *** caught segfault ***
>> address 0x0, cause 'memory not mapped'
>>
>> And the program works properly with R 2.15 on both 10.6 and 10.8.
>>
>> Gang
>>
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:44 AM, "Chen, Gang (NIH/NIMH) [C]"
>>> <gangc...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>> R 3.0.1 does not seem to work properly on two of my Mac notebooks, one
>>>> with 10.8.2 and the other 10.6.8. When I start R on the terminal, I get
>>>> the following:
>>>>
>>>> Error in .Call("R_isMethodsDispatchOn", onOff, PACKAGE = "base") :
>>>> "R_isMethodsDispatchOn" not available for .Call() for package "base"
>>>>
>>>> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport"
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Even the following does not work:
>>>>
>>>>> citation()
>>>> Error: could not find function "citation"
>>>>
>>>> However, once I downgraded R from 3.0.1 to 3.0, everything works fine.
>>>> What could be the source of the problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Gang
>>>
>>>
>>> I would try to download 3.0.1 from a different CRAN mirror. My first guess
>>> is that your download was corrupted and/or did not install correctly or
>>> fully.
>>>
>>> You could try to test the MD5 hash for the downloaded file. The correct
>>> hash value is listed on the download page for OSX:
>>>
>>> In a terminal:
>>>
>>> md5 R-3.0.1.pkg
>>> MD5 (R-3.0.1.pkg) = c0e6e702742f17cd9b2f2e4cb1c5dcad
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Marc Schwartz
>>>
>>> P.S. to Simon. Should there be a consideration for replacing MD5 with SHA,
>>> given the issues with the former?
>>>
>>
>
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