The new version of R-devel from yesterday morning seems to have fixed bug=20 14114! Thanks a lot for your help.
Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> schrieb am 14.12.2009 13:34:35: > On 10/12/2009 4:20 AM, k...@huftis.org wrote: > > Full=5FName: Karl Ove Hufthammer > > Version: 2.10.0 > > OS: Windows XP > > Submission from: (NULL) (93.124.134.66) > >=20 > >=20 > > I have found a rather strange bug in R 2.10.0 on Windows, where=20 > the choice of > > characters used in a string make R crash (i.e., Windows shows a=20 > dialogue saying > > that the application has a problem, and must be closed). >=20 > This was related to encoding changes. It likely appeared=20 > Windows-specific because Windows uses a different default encoding than=20 > most Linux systems. I believe it is fixed now in R-devel, and it will=20 > soon make it into 2.10.1-patched, but it came too late to make it into=20 > today's release. >=20 > I believe PR#14114 was the same issue and is also fixed, but I did less=20 > testing of it. I'd appreciate it if those who saw either bug in real=20 > code test the patches. They should be in today's tarball of R-devel,=20 > and did make it into the Windows binary build of R-devel this morning. >=20 > Duncan >=20 > >=20 > > I can reproduce the bug on two separate systems running Windows XP,=20 and with > > both R 2.10.0 and the latest R.2.10.1 RC. > >=20 > > The following commands trigger the crash for me: > >=20 > > n=3D1e5 > > k=3D10 > > x=3Dsample(k,n,replace=3DTRUE) > > y=3Dsample(k,n,replace=3DTRUE) > > xy=3Dpaste(x,y,sep=3D" =D7 ") > > z=3Dsample(n) > > d=3Ddata.frame(xy,z) > >=20 > > The last step takes very long time, and R crashes before it's=20 finished. Note > > that if I reduce n, the problem disappears. Also, if I change the =D7 (a > > multiplication symbol) to a x (a letter), the problem also=20 > disappears (and the > > last command takes almost no time to run). > >=20 > > I originally discovered this (or a related?) bug while using=20 > 'unique' on a data > > frame similar to the 'd' data frame defined above, where R would=20 > often, but not > > always, crash.=20 > >=20 > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)=20 > > i386-pc-mingw32=20 > >=20 > > locale: > > [1] LC=5FCOLLATE=3DNorwegian-Nynorsk=5FNorway.1252=20 > > [2] LC=5FCTYPE=3DNorwegian-Nynorsk=5FNorway.1252=20 > > [3] LC=5FMONETARY=3DNorwegian-Nynorsk=5FNorway.1252 > > [4] LC=5FNUMERIC=3DC=20 > > [5] LC=5FTIME=3DNorwegian-Nynorsk=5FNorway.1252=20 > >=20 > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > >=20 > > =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >=20 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
