How to debug an R session fatally aborting on Windows?

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I run Rstudio 1.2.5042 and R 3.6.3 on Windows. I have code that consistently crashes R. It's essentially fread reading a large .csv file of around 3.2GB. This causes: "R Session Aborted. R encountered a fatal error. The session was terminated." I get no additional information.

I want to be able to debug this, to have some clue of where it's crashing. I want a stack trace, a core dump, a log - anything that can point me in the right direction. Things I've tried so far:

  • run fread with verbose = TRUE - didn't see any problems
  • checked the log file in %localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop\log - nothing gets added
  • try RGui instead of Rstudio - same problem
  • run code in R --verbose - it still crashes, and didn't print anything useful
  • updated data.table - no change
  • tried running R with --debugger - seems not supported on Windows

I finally managed to attach WinDbg to the R Session and got a fairly primitive stack trace (details here) but I wonder if there are better or faster ways of doing this?

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