tm_polygons() crashes R session with fatal error on Mac OS X Sierra

[philament]

I have noticed that calling tm_polygons(), tm_borders(), and tm_fill() crashes the R session with a fatal error on my current setup of R on Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.6. I am using tmap version 1.10. The crash happens both in RStudio and the standard R Gui. I have been able to reproduce the error both in R 3.3.3 and in R 3.4.2 on two separate laptops (2016 Macbook Pro). Using other tmap functions like tm_bubbles() works fine without any problems.

Example code leading to the crash on the two systems I could test on:

library(tmap)
data(Europe)
tm_shape(Europe) + tm_polygons()

Can anybody reproduce this issue? On my Windows system these lines of code work perfectly fine.

[rlzijdeman]

Hi, I’ve reproduced your example and experience no problems. Sorry. Here’s my sessionInfo(). Best, Richard

library(tmap) data(Europe) tm_shape(Europe) + tm_polygons() sessionInfo()

R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib 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] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] tmap_1.10 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] Rcpp_0.12.12 lattice_0.20-35 deldir_0.1-14 png_0.1-7 class_7.3-14 [6] gtools_3.5.0 digest_0.6.12 foreach_1.4.3 V8_1.5 mime_0.5 [11] R6_2.2.2 plyr_1.8.4 stats4_3.4.1 coda_0.19-1 e1071_1.6-8 [16] spdep_0.6-15 curl_2.8.1 geojsonlint_0.2.0 gdata_2.18.0 geosphere_1.5-5 [21] raster_2.5-8 gmodels_2.16.2 R.utils_2.5.0 R.oo_1.21.0 Matrix_1.2-10 [26] splines_3.4.1 webshot_0.4.2 rgdal_1.2-13 udunits2_0.13 htmlwidgets_0.9 [31] RCurl_1.95-4.8 munsell_0.4.3 shiny_1.0.5 compiler_3.4.1 rmapshaper_0.3.0 [36] httpuv_1.3.5 tmaptools_1.2-1 base64enc_0.1-3 rgeos_0.3-25 htmltools_0.3.6 [41] expm_0.999-2 codetools_0.2-15 mapview_2.1.4 XML_3.98-1.9 viridisLite_0.2.0 [46] jsonvalidate_1.0.0 sf_0.5-4 MASS_7.3-47 bitops_1.0-6 R.methodsS3_1.7.1 [51] grid_3.4.1 nlme_3.1-131 jsonlite_1.5 satellite_1.0.1 xtable_1.8-2 [56] DBI_0.7 magrittr_1.5 units_0.4-6 scales_0.5.0 KernSmooth_2.23-15 [61] LearnBayes_2.15 leaflet_1.1.0 sp_1.2-5 boot_1.3-19 osmar_1.1-7 [66] RColorBrewer_1.1-2 iterators_1.0.8 tools_3.4.1 gdalUtils_2.0.1.7 dichromat_2.0-0 [71] crosstalk_1.0.0 colorspace_1.3-2 classInt_0.1-24 On 27/10/2017, 17:37, "philament" wrote: I have noticed that calling tm_polygons(), tm_borders(), and tm_fill() crashes the R session with a fatal error on my current setup of R on Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.6. I am using tmap version 1.10. The crash happens both in RStudio and the standard R Gui. I have been able to reproduce the error both in R 3.3.3 and in R 3.4.2 on two separate laptops (2016 Macbook Pro). Using other tmap functions like tm_bubbles() works fine without any problems. Example code leading to the crash on the two systems I could test on: library(tmap) data(Europe) tm_shape(Europe) + tm_polygons() Can anybody reproduce this issue? On my Windows system these lines of code work perfectly fine. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<https://github.com/mtennekes/tmap/issues/145>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADUbftc7siH0WKi9rITqqcTZMoI4lBpZks5swfixgaJpZM4QJPWu>.

[philament]

Okay, strange. Many thanks for checking. Seems like the problem lies with my configuration somehow. I am not sure though where to continue searching for the bug. Is there any underlying library that the polygon functions (tm_polygon, tm_border, tm_fill) access, but which is not used by other tmap functions like tm_bubbles?

[mtennekes]

I don't have any apples (except for the juicy ones) so I cannot test it.

There are indeed a couple of underlying libraries that are crucial for tmap, especially sp, raster, rgdal and rgeos. (Other packages under Imports are also needed, but I do not expect issues there.) You can check them one by one, not only by loading them, but also by trying some of their own examples.

[philament]

Thanks, will do. The only slightly unusual thing about my setup might be that I have compiled rgdal from source with GDAL2, which in turn was compiled using homebrew. But then, I can't see why tm_polygons() would need to access GDAL at all when it is simply displaying data.

Anyway, if I make any progress in finding the problem I can post it here, but feel free to close this issue as it's clearly not a problem in tmap itself but related to my setup.

[mtennekes]

See new central issue #149