Bug#819731: r-cran-hdf5: crash on loading hdf objects with empty TITLE attribute

2016-04-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Only thing to add is that IIRC the BioConductor folks also have a package for > R + hdf5: > >http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rhdf5.html > > I am not a user of HDF5 so not sure if this is preferable

Bug#819731: r-cran-hdf5: crash on loading hdf objects with empty TITLE attribute

2016-04-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 April 2016 at 13:51, Zack Weinberg wrote: | On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > Sadly this package is not longer maintained upstream: | > | > https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/hdf5/index.html | > | > Somehow R never had real good

Bug#819731: r-cran-hdf5: crash on loading hdf objects with empty TITLE attribute

2016-04-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Sadly this package is not longer maintained upstream: > > https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/hdf5/index.html > > Somehow R never had real good support for HDF5 files--maybe the newer h5 > package could be an

Bug#819731: r-cran-hdf5: crash on loading hdf objects with empty TITLE attribute

2016-04-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 April 2016 at 10:45, Zack Weinberg wrote: | Package: r-cran-hdf5 | Version: 1.6.10-3+b2 | Severity: normal | | Attached to this bugreport are two HDF5 files named 'title.hdf' and | 'no-title.hdf', and the Python script that generated them (using pytables). | According to h5dump, the only

Bug#819731: r-cran-hdf5: crash on loading hdf objects with empty TITLE attribute

2016-04-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: r-cran-hdf5 Version: 1.6.10-3+b2 Severity: normal Attached to this bugreport are two HDF5 files named 'title.hdf' and 'no-title.hdf', and the Python script that generated them (using pytables). According to h5dump, the only difference between the two is --- title.hdf +++ no-title.hdf