[Rcpp-devel] initialising RInside crashes for some users

[Jonathon Love]

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hi all,

it just occurs to me that this is an RInside query rather than Rcpp,
but i still think this is the right place to post (sorry if it isn't!)

OS X 10.9.4
R 3.0.3
Rcpp 0.10.6
RInside 0.2.10

we are shipping a piece of software which embeds R using RInside and
Rcpp. we've avoided the difficulty of locating, and using the R
install on the users machine by shipping the complete R install as
part of the installation. R lives in the subdirectory within the
project, and so is insulated from the user's misadventures with the
system install.

this all works great, and i have it running on a number of computers,
and quite a number of people are using the software without complaint.
it works on clean installs of OS X 10.8, 10.9, and all the [recent and
reasonable] windows.

however, i've received a bug report from someone, complaining of
crashes with exit code 1. there are no error messages being generated,
so i think it is unrelated to not being able to resolve .dylibs (which
in my experience, is the most common difficulty and source of crashes
in shipping R on OS X)

they are running the latest OS X mavericks, etc (same as me). and i am
unable to reproduce the problem at my end.

source code is here:

https://github.com/jasp-stats/jasp-desktop/blob/master/JASP-Engine/rcppbridge.cpp

i've added debug statements, provided it to the affected user, and
narrowed it down to the initialisation of RInside.

_rInside = new RInside(0, NULL, true, true, false);

(this code isn't exactly what i have in the shipping version or
github; i modified it so i could surround this call with debug
statements; but i'm certainly not doing anything exotic)

i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what might be
going wrong, and what i might do to debug this further. would adding
printf() statements into RInside be fruitful for example?

with thanks

jonathon

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