tikzDevice + R 4.1.0 +ggplot2 = segfault address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'

[DanielBonnery]

Seg fault.

lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal

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[Previously saved workspace restored]

library(ggplot2);library(tikzDevice);
tikz("toto.tex");ggplot(data=cars,aes(x=speed))+geom_histogram();dev.off()

*** caught segfault ***
address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: .setMask(NULL, NULL)
2: resolveMask.NULL(NULL)
3: (function (path) { UseMethod("resolveMask")})(NULL)
4: grid.newpage()
5: print.ggplot(x)
6: (function (x, ...) UseMethod("print"))(x)

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
`

[DanielBonnery]

sudo apt-get install r-cran-tikzdevice
solved the issue...

[rstub]

That is expected since the graphics API has changed. Which version of tikzDevice did you use before?

[jamarav]

I installed with devtools the master branch and I got the same issue with R version 4.1.0. With the previous version (R 4.0.5) I constructed succesfully the master branch. I need the master branch in order to use knitr + tikzDevice using child documents and cutom *.cls classes.

> print(sessionInfo())
R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblasp-r0.2.20.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=es_ES.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=es_ES.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=es_ES.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.0 tools_4.1.0   

[jamarav]

Installing the package from the cran repository seems to work but I can't build from the repository correctly.

I tried to buid the package with the following options:

• install.packages( 'tikzDevice', repos = 'https://rforge.net', type = 'source' )
• devtools::install_github( 'daqana/tikzDevice' )
• git clone git://github.com/daqana/tikzDevice.git and devtools::install()

The 3 options get the same result when I run a .Rnw with tikzplots:

 *** caught segfault ***
address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
 1: .setMask(NULL, NULL)
 2: resolveMask.NULL(NULL)
 3: (function (path) {    UseMethod("resolveMask")})(NULL)
 4: grid.newpage()
 5: print.ggplot(p)
 6: print(p)
 7: print(p)
 8: printTikz(p1$plot, cwd)
 9: eval(expr, envir, enclos)
10: eval(expr, envir, enclos)
11: withVisible(eval(expr, envir, enclos))
12: withCallingHandlers(withVisible(eval(expr, envir, enclos)), warning = wHandler,     error = eHandler, message = mHandler)
13: handle(ev <- withCallingHandlers(withVisible(eval(expr, envir,     enclos)), warning = wHandler, error = eHandler, message = mHandler))
14: timing_fn(handle(ev <- withCallingHandlers(withVisible(eval(expr,     envir, enclos)), warning = wHandler, error = eHandler, message = mHandler)))
15: evaluate_call(expr, parsed$src[[i]], envir = envir, enclos = enclos,     debug = debug, last = i == length(out), use_try = stop_on_error !=         2L, keep_warning = keep_warning, keep_message = keep_message,     output_handler = output_handler, include_timing = include_timing)
16: evaluate::evaluate(...)
17: evaluate(code, envir = env, new_device = FALSE, keep_warning = !isFALSE(options$warning),     keep_message = !isFALSE(options$message), stop_on_error = if (is.numeric(options$error)) options$error else {        if (options$error && options$include)             0L        else 2L    }, output_handler = knit_handlers(options$render, options))
18: in_dir(input_dir(), evaluate(code, envir = env, new_device = FALSE,     keep_warning = !isFALSE(options$warning), keep_message = !isFALSE(options$message),     stop_on_error = if (is.numeric(options$error)) options$error else {        if (options$error && options$include)             0L        else 2L    }, output_handler = knit_handlers(options$render, options)))
19: eng_r(options)
20: block_exec(params)
21: call_block(x)
22: process_group.block(group)
23: process_group(group)
24: withCallingHandlers(if (tangle) process_tangle(group) else process_group(group),     error = function(e) {        setwd(wd)        cat(res, sep = "\n", file = output %n% "")        message("Quitting from lines ", paste(current_lines(i),             collapse = "-"), " (", knit_concord$get("infile"),             ") ")    })
25: process_file(text, output)
26: knit(..., tangle = opts_knit$get("tangle"), envir = envir)
27: FUN(X[[i]], ...)
28: lapply(sc_split(params$child), knit_child, options = block$params)
29: call_block(x)
30: process_group.block(group)
31: process_group(group)
32: withCallingHandlers(if (tangle) process_tangle(group) else process_group(group),     error = function(e) {        setwd(wd)        cat(res, sep = "\n", file = output %n% "")        message("Quitting from lines ", paste(current_lines(i),             collapse = "-"), " (", knit_concord$get("infile"),             ") ")    })
33: process_file(text, output)
34: knit("main.Rnw", encoding = "UTF-8")
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...

[kylebutts]

I'm facing the same issue. The first function will run and the second fails, so I suspect there is something wrong with ggplot2?

tikzDevice::tikz("example.tex"); plot(mtcars[["mpg"]]); dev.off()
tikzDevice::tikz("example2.tex"); ggplot2::qplot(mtcars[["mpg"]]); dev.off()

This, however does work!!

tikzDevice::tikz("example2.tex"); plot(cowplot::as_grob(ggplot2::qplot(mtcars[["mpg"]]))); dev.off()

[rstub]

I have finally merged PR #206 which should fix this issue. Can you please recheck?

[kylebutts]

My comment works for me! That's fantastic, thanks @rstub