Error thrown within ddply crashes R - r

I'm running into an issue where plyr consistently crashes when an error is thrown from the supplied function
> require(plyr)
Loading required package: plyr
Warning message:
package ‘plyr’ was built under R version 3.0.2
> df <- data.frame(group=c("A","A","B","B"), num=c(11,22,33,44))
> ddply(df, .(group), function(x) {x})
group num
1 A 11
2 A 22
3 B 33
4 B 44
> ddply(df, .(group), function(x) {stop("badness")})
called from: (function ()
{
.rs.breakOnError(TRUE)
})()
Error in .fun(piece, ...) : badness
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# Crashes immediately
Is anyone aware of why this may be occuring and how to prevent it (other than avoiding errors of course)?
(I'm running R 3.0.1 on platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) through RStudio 0.98.274 under Windows 7)
EDIT
As a workaround, I am redirecting any errors as warnings which avoids the crashes
ddply(df, .(group), function(x) tryCatch(stop("badness"), error = function(e) warning(e)) )
Will report what happens here if I manage to align the plyr and R versions.

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