From cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu  Thu Feb 17 00:10:21 2000
From: cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu (cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:10:21 +0100 (MET)
Subject: [Rd] "a.matrix[a.char.matrix]<- " crashes R (PR#447)
Message-ID: <200002170010.BAA24653@pubhealth.ku.dk>

To wit:
---
> junk <- array(3,c(10,3),dimnames=list(as.character(1:10),as.character(1:3)))
> junk[cbind(as.character(1:5),as.character(c(1,2,3,2,3)))] <- 20
> 
> junk

Process R segmentation violation (core dumped) at Wed Feb 16 15:57:49
2000
---

I know that the use of a ***character*** matrix is not documented for
this context. Still, it should not crash R.

In addition to 0.90.1, this also happens on rw0991b


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Version:
 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.7
 system = sparc, solaris2.7
 status = 
 major = 0
 minor = 90.1
 year = 1999
 month = December
 day = 15
 language = R

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base

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[Rd] "a.matrix[a.char.matrix]<- " crashes R (PR#447)
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