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Aman Verma

12 Feb, 2013 09:24 PM

I have found that using View a particular data.frame will consistently crash RStudio. This is done on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine using R version 2.15.2.

# Crashes RStudio
b <- "2000-01-01"
df1 <- data.frame(b)
df1$b <- strptime(b, "%Y-%m-%d")     
View(df1)

Notably the View command is automatically run when I try to click on the df1 object in the Workspace window.

Interestingly, this commands works fine:

# Works
b <- "2000-01-01"
df1 <- data.frame(b=strptime(b, "%Y-%m-%d"))
View(df1)

Here is my sessionInfo():

R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)







locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252

[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C

[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    







attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     







loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.2

1. 2 Posted by Kevin Dykstra on 14 Mar, 2013 05:29 PM

   

   Any resolution to this? I am running R2.14.1, 64 bit. Same thing when I click on an object or type it in the console.

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2. 3 Posted by Aman Verma on 14 Mar, 2013 05:57 PM

   

   No, this still crashes RStudio 0.97.316 on 64-bit Windows 7 running R 2.15.3, which I think is the newest everything as of today. I have also confirmed that it still exists in last night's build.

   I suspect it has something to do with the way that RStudio overrides utils:::View(). There is a recent question here about this, I suspect it is related.

   Interestingly, if you use R's internal utils:::View(df1) on the example above, it works, in the sense that it displays the usual ugly R viewer.

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3. Support Staff 4 Posted by Josh Paulson on 15 Mar, 2013 03:05 PM

   

   Aman and Kevin,

   Thanks for reporting this and I was able to reproduce as well. I've filed a bug for this and we'll be taking a look. We do implement the View() function ourselves and likely that is where something is going wrong. Note that more simple calls to View() still work such as:

   $ View(cars)
   

   Thanks!

   Josh

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4. Josh Paulson closed this discussion on 15 Mar, 2013 03:05 PM.

5. Kevin Dykstra re-opened this discussion on 15 Mar, 2013 04:32 PM

6. 5 Posted by Kevin Dykstra on 15 Mar, 2013 04:32 PM

   

   I can confirm that for most objects it works fine. It just so happened that the very first one I tried did not work.

   Sent from my iPhone

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