Whenever I tried using ggplot2's function geom_smooth(), I was getting a segfault. I figured out the problem was due to the mcgv package, which is an R recommended package, which segfaults whenever it is included. Here is the output from its installation:
> install.packages('mgcv')
Installing package into ‘/home/<username>/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/mgcv_1.8-17.tar.gz'
Content type 'unknown' length 849787 bytes (829 KB)
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downloaded 829 KB
* installing *source* package ‘mgcv’ ...
** package ‘mgcv’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c coxph.c -o coxph.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c discrete.c -o discrete.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c gdi.c -o gdi.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c init.c -o init.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c magic.c -o magic.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c mat.c -o mat.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c matrix.c -o matrix.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c mgcv.c -o mgcv.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c misc.c -o misc.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c mvn.c -o mvn.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c qp.c -o qp.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c soap.c -o soap.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c sparse-smooth.c -o sparse-smooth.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fopenmp -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c tprs.c -o tprs.o
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -Wl,-z,relro -o mgcv.so coxph.o discrete.o gdi.o init.o magic.o mat.o matrix.o mgcv.o misc.o mvn.o qp.o soap.o sparse-smooth.o tprs.o -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lRlapack -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -fopenmp -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/<username>/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/mgcv/libs
** R
** data
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Warning in fun(libname, pkgname) :
bytecode version mismatch; using eval
Warning: package ‘nlme’ was built under R version 3.4.0
*** caught segfault ***
address 0x6, cause 'memory not mapped'
Traceback:
1: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
2: library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib)
3: loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)
4: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
6: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
7: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) if (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch))) call <- sys.call(-4L) dcall <- deparse(call)[1L] prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75L msg <- conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]] w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w") if (is.na(w)) w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "b") if (w > LONG) prefix <- paste0(prefix, "\n ") } else prefix <- "Error : " msg <- paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L])) if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { cat(msg, file = stderr()) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) } invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error", condition = e))})
8: try({ attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc) env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps)})
9: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc, quietly = quietly)
10: .getRequiredPackages2(pkgInfo, quietly, lib.loc, useImports)
11: .getRequiredPackages(quietly = TRUE)
12: withCallingHandlers(expr, packageStartupMessage = function(c) invokeRestart("muffleMessage"))
13: suppressPackageStartupMessages(.getRequiredPackages(quietly = TRUE))
14: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
15: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
16: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
17: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) if (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch))) call <- sys.call(-4L) dcall <- deparse(call)[1L] prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75L msg <- conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]] w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w") if (is.na(w)) w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "b") if (w > LONG) prefix <- paste0(prefix, "\n ") } else prefix <- "Error : " msg <- paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L])) if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { cat(msg, file = stderr()) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) } invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error", condition = e))})
18: try({ suppressPackageStartupMessages(.getRequiredPackages(quietly = TRUE)) makeLazyLoading(pkg_name, lib, keep.source = keep.source)})
19: do_install_source(pkg_name, instdir, pkg, desc)
20: do_install(pkg)
21: tools:::.install_packages()
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
/usr/lib64/R/bin/INSTALL: line 34: 36723 Done echo 'tools:::.install_packages()'
36724 Segmentation fault | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C "${R_HOME}/bin/R" $myArgs --slave --args ${args}
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘mgcv’ had non-zero exit status
Here is my version of R:
> R.version
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platform x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 3
minor 3.3
year 2017
month 03
day 06
svn rev 72310
language R
version.string R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
nickname Another Canoe
Any thoughts as to what is going on?
Upgrade your R version to 3.4.0. Particularly, compilation of mgcv is successful (as you have reached byte-compilation stage). The problem is with its dependent package nlme, which requires R version 3.4.0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
I think once you upgrade R, you don't need to do anything else. mgcv and nlme will be upgraded, too, automatically, because they are "recommended".
I'll give it a shot--but unfortunately I don't have sudo on this machine, so it will take a while to try and get it upgraded. I wonder if there are any solutions I can try in the interim.
Do you have to install an additional version of mgcv? Why not just do library(mgcv) and use the one compatible with your current R release?
Allow me to reformulate The_Anomaly's final, local solution:
After I restarted R studio's R session properly (i.e. manually restarted, not just recover from a crash), I could no longer load any packages that I had installed. So I start looking at
.libPaths()but found surprisingly that the folder "R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3" did not have any of my packages, but another folder ".../3.4" did. For some reason, prior to this restart, R version 3.3 was using packages built for R 3.4. Your solution would have likely worked because it would have solved this mismatch, so I marked it as correct -- but for me the restart actually worked.