[R] Bug in R 2.4.1 ?

[Sebastian Weber]

Hi!

Replying to my own post: Thanks Duncan for your hint to try the newest
version! I did not think of this in the first place as I'm using the
newest Ubuntu feisty fawn release which got released a couple of days
ago. Nevertheless, the r-cran-hdf5 package is outdated and the newest
one available at cran works again as I want it to.

So cancel this R bug and and account it for a user bug :-).

Greetings,

Sebastian

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:20 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 4/23/2007 10:56 AM, Sebastian Weber wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > I'm using hdf5 files to store results from intermediate calculations.
> > These are usually part of a list, called "res". As I want the hdf-files
> > to contain all the members of res in its top "directory", I used to do
> > 
> > attach(res)
> > do.call("hdf5save", args=c(fileout=file.path(dir, ofile),  
> >         as.list(names(res))))
> > detach(res)
> > 
> > which did what I wanted (R version 2.3.1 under ubuntu edgy). Since the
> > upgrade to ubuntu feisty fawn which ships with R 2.4.1, the code above
> > causes a crash:
> > 
> >  *** caught segfault ***
> > address 0x11, cause 'memory not mapped'
> > 
> > Traceback:
> >  1: .External("do_hdf5save", call, sys.frame(sys.parent()),
> > fileout,     ..., PACKAGE = "hdf5")
> >  2: hdf5save(fileout =
> > "tex/ABpattern_pub/data/knnTest/gTest_annAB.1.statsAll.hdf5",
> > "newman", "hist", "graphProp", "graphBins")
> >  3: do.call("hdf5save", args = c(fileout = file.path(dir, ofile),
> > as.list(names(res))))
> >  4: avgGraphData(dir = "tex/ABpattern_pub/data/knnTest")
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to fix this or what is wrong? To me it seems to be a
> > bug introduced in R 2.4.1.
> 
> hdf5save is a function in the hdf5 contributed package, so you should 
> start with its maintainer, Marcus G. Daniels <mdaniels at lanl.gov>.  But 
> before you bother him, make sure you're using the latest release of it. 
>   If you still have problems, give him the usual details requested in
> the posting guide.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch