It's a Windows limitation, it seems, so who knows (and it may depend on your exact OS version). My guess is that it is 255, and I will add a limit of 255. (200 works, 300 crashes.)
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This probably should go to Duncan Murdoch ... > > The following reliably crashes R Version 1.9.1 on Win2000: > > winDialogString(paste(sample(letters,500,rep=TRUE), > collapse=""),default="") > > (presumably because of the too lengthy message string; but what is the > length limit?). > -- > > Bert Gunter > > Non-Clinical Biostatistics > Genentech > MS: 240B > Phone: 650-467-7374 > > > "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning > process." > > -- George E.P. Box > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
