From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Aug  4 16:07:45 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed Aug  4 16:07:56 2004
Subject: [Rd] R 1.9.1 Crash in Win2000 (PR#7139)
In-Reply-To: <20040728182242.266D2FCDC@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408041504160.8163-100000@gannet.stats>

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 gunter.berton@gene.com 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
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> Phone: 650-467-7374
> 
> 
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> process."
> 
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[Rd] R 1.9.1 Crash in Win2000 (PR#7139)
Prof Brian Ripley