[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Full_Name: Justin Harrington > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Fedora Core 6 > Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.121.203) > > > When I type the (albeit stupid) command > > eval(match.call()) > > R crashes with the following messages (truncated): > > *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated
Yes, don't do that then ;-) Part of the puzzle is that > match.call() match.call() which looks like something with potential for infinite recursion, but that doesn't seem to be issue since > f <- function(call = sys.call(sys.parent()))call > f() f() > eval(f()) f() does not exhibit the same crash. And indeed > x <- quote(match.call()) > eval(x) *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0x1f1161] /lib/libc.so.6[0x1f0617] does look like something that just Should Not Happen... > The complete output is available at http://md.stat.ubc.ca/Routput.txt > > For reference, here are the results from version: > > platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu > arch i686 > os linux-gnu > system i686, linux-gnu > status > major 2 > minor 4.0 > year 2006 > month 10 > day 03 > svn rev 39566 > language R > version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) > > and my version of R was installed using yum from the fedora repositories. Ah, thanks. Sufficient information for once... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
