I am getting a caught segfault error every time I try to run any plotting functions from the ggplot2 package (1.0.0). I have tried this with qplot, geom_dotplot, geom_histogram, etc. Data from the package (e.g. diamonds or economics) work just fine.
I am operating on Mac OS 10.9.4 (the latest version) and on R 3.1.1 (also the latest version). I get the same error with the standard R GUI, RStudio, and when using R from the command line. The command brings up the default graphic device (Quartz for R GUI and command line), but also the terminal error.
library(ggplot2)
qplot(1:10)
gives me the error:
*** caught segfault ***
address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'
Traceback:
1: .Call("plyr_split_indices", PACKAGE = "plyr", group, n)
2: split_indices(scale_id, n)
3: scale_apply(layer_data, x_vars, scale_train, SCALE_X, panel$x_scales)
4: train_position(panel, data, scale_x(), scale_y())
5: ggplot_build(x)
6: print.ggplot(list(data = list(), layers = list(<environment>), scales = <S4 object of class "Scales">, mapping = list(x = 1:3), theme = list(), coordinates = list(limits = list(x = NULL, y = NULL)), facet = list(shrink = TRUE), plot_env = <environment>, labels = list(x = "1:3", y = "count")))
7: print(list(data = list(), layers = list(<environment>), scales = <S4 object of class "Scales">, mapping = list(x = 1:3), theme = list(), coordinates = list( limits = list(x = NULL, y = NULL)), facet = list(shrink = TRUE), plot_env = <environment>, labels = list(x = "1:3", y = "count")))
Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Here is my session info:
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] graphics grDevices utils datasets stats methods base
other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_1.0.0 marelac_2.1.3 seacarb_3.0 shape_1.4.1 beepr_1.1 birk_1.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] audio_0.1-5 colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4 grid_3.1.1 gtable_0.1.2
[6] MASS_7.3-34 munsell_0.4.2 plyr_1.8.1 proto_0.3-10 Rcpp_0.11.2
[11] reshape2_1.4 scales_0.2.4 stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.1.1
I've gathered from others that this is a memory issue of some sort, but this error occurs even when I have over 2 GB of free RAM. I know this is a widely used package, so of course this doesn't happen for everyone, but why is it happening for me? Does anyone know what I can do to fix this problem?
question from:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25672974/caught-segfault-error-in-r 
