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Recently I am crashing R relatively often. The message is invariably
*** caught segfault ***
address xxx, cause 'memory not mapped'
Reproducing would be hard, and in any case I could not share the large proprietary data sets. My question is: can I report the crash so that it is investigated? Would generating the coredump help? It seems that the FAQ section on reporting bugs is not meant for this contingency.
I wouldn’t report them to R-core / R-devel unless you’re 100% certain it’s a bug in R and not a package. It’s more likely the bug is in a package you’re using. If you can’t create a reproducible example of the bug, the package maintainer isn’t likely to try to hunt it down.