From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Tue Jul 26 11:26:14 2005
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:26:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] beginner finds a bug - crash induced. (PR#8035)
Message-ID: <20050726092614.86CAAA258@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Well,
you say yourself it wasn't reproducible.  So it could have been
anything that "crashed" you R , cosmic radiation, a bolt of
lightning reversing a bit in your computer memory ,...  :-)
many things rather than a bug in R.

But before dropping this report completely,
can you try

for(i in 1:1000) {
    state <- c("tas", "sa",  "qld", "nsw", "nsw", "nt",  "wa",  "wa",
               "qld", "vic", "nsw", "vic", "qld", "qld", "sa",  "tas",
               "sa",  "nt",  "wa",  "vic", "qld", "nsw", "nsw", "wa",
               "sa",  "act", "nsw", "vic", "vic", "act")
    print(factor(state))
    print(table(state))
    barplot(table(state))
}

which does what you did, but 1000 times --- "of course" completely
flawlessly for me..

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich

>>>>> "sholland" == sholland  <sholland at napervillegi.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 04:29:23 +0200 (CEST) writes:

    sholland> Full_Name: Stephen Holland M.D.  
    sholland> Version: 2.1.1
    sholland> OS: Mac OS X



[Rd] beginner finds a bug - crash induced. (PR#8035)
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