R session crash associated with graphic device in `makePNG()` called from within `makeDisplay()`

[mcjudd]

The following code crashes R 3.4.1 on my Windows machine:

library(datadr)
library(trelliscope)

# set up viz database

conn <- vdbConn("vdb", name = "Example")
data(iris)
div <- divide(iris, by = "Species")

# create panel function

exPanel <- function(data) {
    hist(data$Sepal.Length)
    return(NULL)
}

# make display

makeDisplay(div,
            name = "foo",
            desc = "bar",
            panelFn = exPanel)

Debugging with Visual Studio, the error I get is

Unhandled exception at 0x0000000300000002 in rsession.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation at location 0x0000000300000002.

It looks like it happens right after a call to grDevices.dll!000000006fc827ef(); stepping through makeDisplay(), it appears that the issue arises from the following call:

suppressMessages(makePNG(datadr::kvExample(data), panelFn = panelFn, 
    file = file.path(tempPrefix, "thumb.png"), width = width, 
    height = height, lims = lims))

And specifically, the following call within makePNG()

 tmp <- datadr::kvApply(dat, panelFn)$value

I changed my .Renviron file to point my temp path to the same drive/partition as where the vdb is located, but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

Session info:

R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

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

other attached packages:
[1] trelliscope_0.9.8 datadr_0.8.6     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.12.12            bindr_0.1               magrittr_1.5            munsell_0.4.3           xtable_1.8-2           
 [6] colorspace_1.3-2        lattice_0.20-35         R6_2.2.2                jpeg_0.1-8              rlang_0.1.2            
[11] plyr_1.8.4              dplyr_0.7.2             tools_3.4.1             parallel_3.4.1          grid_3.4.1             
[16] data.table_1.10.4       gtable_0.2.0            png_0.1-7               htmltools_0.3.6         lazyeval_0.2.0         
[21] assertthat_0.2.0        digest_0.6.12           tibble_1.3.4            bindrcpp_0.2            shiny_1.0.5            
[26] ggplot2_2.2.1           htmlwidgets_0.9         DistributionUtils_0.5-1 base64enc_0.1-3         codetools_0.2-15       
[31] rsconnect_0.8.5         curl_2.8.1              mime_0.5                glue_1.1.1              compiler_3.4.1         
[36] scales_0.5.0            jsonlite_1.5            httpuv_1.3.5            hexbin_1.27.1           pkgconfig_2.0.1