I don't think this is C stack overflow. His R is so old the message means `protection stack overflow'.
The first action (as described in the posting guide) is indeed to update R, though. On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "manohar" == manohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Tue, 6 Dec 2005 06:39:27 -0800 (PST) writes: > > manohar> Hi all, > manohar> I am trying to build a package in R (ver 2.1.0, on a > manohar> PC). > > which I interpret that you are running Windows, right? > > manohar> I am able to run package.skeleton successfully > manohar> and populate the different environments. > manohar> However, when I attempt to invoke the build (R CMD > manohar> BUILD), i get an error which says something like > manohar> protect(): Stack Overflow > > The NEWS for the current 'R 2.2.1 beta' > (-> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/NEWS ) > has had a very prominent entry at the beginning (for many weeks now), > >>> USER-VISIBLE CHANGES >>> >>> o options("expressions") has been reduced to 1000: the limit >>> of 5000 introduced in 2.1.0 was liable to give crashes from C >>> stack overflow. > > (and actually, the crashes seemed to happen particurlary often > on Windows) > > manohar> I would appreciate if anyone could suggest a way to > manohar> get around this error message and help me build the > manohar> package. > > You can download the pretty new precompiled R-patched (as of today "R beta") > versions for windows from your nearest CRAN mirror, > newest via "Precompiled" -> "Windows" -> "base" and "r-patched snapshot build" > > Regards, > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
