I presume this was in R 1.9.1?
It seems that this was something I had already fixed (from another
symptom) and not been able to commit because the CVS archive was down.
I have now fixed it in R 1.9.1 patched and R-devel, and put a regression
test into the latter.
Brian
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Experimenting a bit further, I've "found" the following
>
> 1) the problem seems only gsub(), not sub()
>
> > sub(" ", "", "b c + d | a * b", perl=TRUE)
> [1] "bc + d | a * b"
> > gsub(" ", "", "b c + d | a * b", perl=TRUE)
> NULL
>
> 2) only if perl = TRUE, not otherwise
>
> 3) Also modifying the replacement string only slightly leads to a
> different (correct instead of bug) result:
>
> > gsub(" ", "", "bc + d | a * b", perl=TRUE)
> [1] "bc+d|a*b"
> > gsub(" ", "", "b c + d | a *", perl=TRUE)
> [1] "bc+d|a*"
> > gsub(" ", "", "b c + d | b", perl=TRUE)
> [1] "bc+d|b"
>
> Whereas those give the bug as well :
>
> > gsub(" ", "", "b : : d : a : b", perl=TRUE)
> NULL
> > gsub(" ", "", "b : : : : a : b", perl=TRUE)
> NULL
> > gsub(" ", "", "b : : : : : : b", perl=TRUE)
> NULL
> > gsub(" ", "", "a : : : : : : a", perl=TRUE)
> NULL
> but not this
> > gsub(" ", "", "b : : : : : : a", perl=TRUE)
> [1] "b::::::a"
>
> But it's even worse :
>
> > gsub(" ", "", "a: 12345 :a", perl=TRUE)
>
> -> segmentation fault
>
> and from "R -d gdb" :
>
> > gsub(" ", "", "a: 12345 :a", perl=TRUE)
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> hashIndex (symbol=0x8fd0060, table=0x823f2b8) at
> ../../../R/src/main/envir.c:599
> 599 if( !HASHASH(c) ) {
> (gdb) bt
> #0 hashIndex (symbol=0x8fd0060, table=0x823f2b8)
> at ../../../R/src/main/envir.c:599
> #1 0x080b145d in R_GetGlobalCache (symbol=0x1)
> at ../../../R/src/main/envir.c:656
> #2 0x080b1ac1 in findGlobalVar (symbol=0x8fd0060)
> at ../../../R/src/main/envir.c:923
> #3 0x080b8873 in Rf_eval (e=0x823f2b8, rho=0x823f014)
> at ../../../R/src/main/eval.c:329
> #4 0x080b88c9 in Rf_eval (e=0x8fd1e60, rho=0x821e540)
> at ../../../R/src/main/eval.c:354
> #5 0x080e1e0e in GetObject (cptr=0xbfffd400)
> at ../../../R/src/main/objects.c:88
> #6 0x080e2a3b in do_usemethod (call=0x84eb084, op=0x823be78, args=0x84eb0a0,
> env=0x8fd1df0) at ../../../R/src/main/objects.c:381
> #7 0x080b8c33 in Rf_eval (e=0x84eb084, rho=0x8fd1df0)
> at ../../../R/src/main/eval.c:375
> #8 0x080b8f48 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0x8fd1eb4, op=0x84eafa4,
> arglist=0x8fd1e44, rho=0x823f014, suppliedenv=0x821e540)
> at ../../../R/src/main/eval.c:559
> #9 0x080b89bf in Rf_eval (e=0x8fd1eb4, rho=0x823f014)
> at ../../../R/src/main/eval.c:410
> #10 0x0811b0f3 in Rf_PrintValueEnv (s=0x8fd1eb4, env=0x823f014)
> at ../../../R/src/main/print.c:775
> #11 0x080d55f1 in Rf_ReplIteration (rho=0x823f014, savestack=150798432,
> browselevel=1, state=0x823f014) at ../../../R/src/main/main.c:254
> #12 0x080d578d in R_ReplConsole (rho=0x823f014, savestack=0, browselevel=0)
> at ../../../R/src/main/main.c:298
> #13 0x080d60d0 in run_Rmainloop ()
> at ../../../R/src/main/main.c:656
> #14 0x08147e90 in main (ac=150798432, av=0x8fd0060)
> at ../../../R/src/unix/system.c:99
> #15 0x42017589 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
>
> (which is not directly helpful since src/main/pcre.c (where
> the C source for gsub(*, perl=TRUE) resides) isn't mentioned above.
>
> Must be a memory allocation / mismatch / end_of_string problem
> somewhere.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
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