From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Wed Mar 15 18:26:03 2006
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:26:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] R_alloc problem on Mac OSX (PR#8683)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, dan.kelley at dal.ca wrote:

> Full_Name: Dan Kelley
> Version: 2.2.1
> OS: Mac OSX
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.173.23.36)
>
>
> I'm having difficulties getting R_alloc() to work on a 64-bit Mac running R
> 2.2.1 installed via a .dmg file obtained from the R site.  Details are given
> below, in a level of detail that I hope is appropriate.  My eye was particularly
> drawn to line #2 in the gdb 'where' output, but line #1 seems sensible so I may
> just be displaying my ignorance by drawing attention to this.
>
> I wonder, is there something I should be doing first, to initialize memory?

Yes. Read section 7 of "Writing R Extensions" if you want to write a 
different front-end for R.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle



[Rd] R_alloc problem on Mac OSX (PR#8683)
Thomas Lumley