I used R on OS X 10.3x quite some time with no serious problems.
Sometimes R stopped when I tried to execute a bigger program. After
updating to OS X to version 10.4 R worked but I still had the problem
with bigger programs. Therefore I re-installed R on top of the
existing R version. The installation finished properly but suddenly R
did not work. Then I reinstalled OS X 10.4 because I thought some
left over registry information from R may caused the problem. R still
crashed. I hoped the problem would be overcome with the new R version
1.12. Unfortunately this is not the case. The error report (see
appendix) says that Thread 0 crashed.
What can I do?
Heinz Schild

Date/Time:    2005-07-08 18:13:16.748 +0200
OS Version:   10.4.1 (Build 8B15)
Report Version: 3

Command: R
Path:   /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
Parent: WindowServer [62]

Version: 1.12 (1622)

PID:   269
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]:   0x00000001
Code[1]:   0x92897200


Thread 0 Crashed:
0  com.apple.Foundation    0x92897200 _NSRaiseError + 264
1  com.apple.Foundation    0x92896f3c +[NSException raise:format:] + 40
2  com.apple.Foundation    0x9286c120 -[NSString stringByAppendingString:] + 104
3  org.R-project.R        0x00006ce0 -[RController doLoadHistory:] + 812 (crt.c:300)
4  org.R-project.R        0x00003ce0 -[RController awakeFromNib] + 1980 (crt.c:300)
5  com.apple.Foundation    0x92886788 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 164
6  com.apple.AppKit        0x93636f94 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 864
7  com.apple.AppKit        0x93623324 loadNib + 240
8  com.apple.AppKit        0x93622d7c +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 716
9  com.apple.AppKit        0x9367a05c +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 156
10 com.apple.AppKit        0x93709e10 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 344
11 com.apple.AppKit        0x93709bb0 NSApplicationMain + 344
12 org.R-project.R        0x00002dd0 _start + 392 (crt.c:267)
13 dyld                0x8fe01048 _dyld_start + 60

Thread 1:
0  libSystem.B.dylib      0x9000a778 mach_msg_trap + 8
1  libSystem.B.dylib      0x9000a6bc mach_msg + 60
2  com.apple.CoreFoundation  0x9074a4d8 __CFRunLoopRun + 832
3  com.apple.CoreFoundation  0x90749ddc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
4  com.apple.Foundation    0x928716b8 -[NSConnection sendInvocation:] + 1468
5  com.apple.Foundation    0x92870154 -[NSObject(NSForwardInvocation) forward::] + 408
6  libobjc.A.dylib        0x909b10d0 _objc_msgForward + 176
7  org.R-project.R        0x00004244 -[RController readThread:] + 244 (crt.c:300)
8  com.apple.Foundation    0x9287c2b4 forkThreadForFunction + 108
9  libSystem.B.dylib      0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x92897200 srr1: 0x0202f030           vrsave: 0x00000000
  cr: 0x24002422 xer: 0x00000004  lr: 0x928971d8 ctr: 0x9285903c
  r0: 0x00000000  r1: 0xbffff1f0  r2: 0xa2856508  r3: 0xbfffeda0
  r4: 0x00000000  r5: 0x92858964  r6: 0xbfffee24  r7: 0x000000ff
  r8: 0xbfffee10  r9: 0x03c09f20 r10: 0x909aa668 r11: 0x24002422
 r12: 0x9285903c r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
 r16: 0x00000002 r17: 0x00043524 r18: 0x00043524 r19: 0x00043524
 r20: 0x00043524 r21: 0x00043524 r22: 0x00043524 r23: 0x00043524
 r24: 0xa365e07c r25: 0x000369b4 r26: 0x01175740 r27: 0x03c2e7d0
 r28: 0x03c37c30 r29: 0xa285b7ec r30: 0x90a239c0 r31: 0x92897108

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