R plotting crashed a lot on OSX on my system:
archey R --version brew --version
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#### User: gcr
### Hostname: orion
####### ####### Distro: OS X 10.9.3
###################### Kernel: Darwin
##################### Uptime: 2 days
#################### Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
#################### Terminal: dumb
##################### Packages: 78
###################### CPU: Intel Core i7-4960HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
#################### Memory: 16 GB
################ Disk: 26%
#### #####
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) -- "Sock it to Me"
Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0 (64-bit)
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
For more information about these matters see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
0.9.5
Almost every time that I would use the quartz device, ℝ would segfault.
After changing it to X11, there have not been any segfaults. Perhaps I misunderstood the relationship between how the Brew build interacts with quartz.