abbreviate() will go into an infinite loop if two elements of the argument differ only by leading space
eg
abbreviate(c("A"," A"), 4)
This is in R 1.8.0 (both OS X and Linux).
The problem appears to be that duplicates are removed before leading and
trailing spaces.
-thomas
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