cairoDevice crashes on initialization

[Patrick Wagstrom]

The version of r-cran-cairodevice (2.8-1) for i386 on Intrepid crashes when the command Cairo is called within R. Here's a simple way to reproduce:

> library(cairoDevice)
> Cairo(width = 7, height = 7, pointsize = 10, surface = "screen", filename = NULL)

 *** caught segfault ***
address 0xdd5f3a5, cause 'memory not mapped'

It should put a graphics window on the desktop. Downloading the most recent (2.9-2) code from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cairoDevice/index.html and installing that over the .deb seems to fix the problem. So maybe it's just something weird with 2.8-1.