From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Thu Jun 22 16:50:34 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:50:34 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] de on w95b crash rterm with long strings (PR#577)
Message-ID: <200006221550.QAA01867@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>


> From: p.malewski@tu-bs.de
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:43:26 +0200 (MET DST)
> To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Rd] de on w95b crash rterm with long strings (PR#577)
> CC: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> X-Loop: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> 
> Full_Name: Peter Malewski
> Version: RW-1010
> OS: w95
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.111.250)
> 
> 
> On w95b, de crashes rterm (with ess) when a vector with long strings appear:
> 
> for (i in 1:100){
>   print(i)
>   xx <- rep(paste(rep("a",i),collapse=""),10)
>   de(xx)
> }
> 
> crashes at i=48. The length of the vector + vsize/nsize is irrelevant. (I 
found
> this by editing a data.frame with addresses).

Yes, there is a limit of 44 chars displayed in a field.  Will fix for the next
release (probably by limiting the cell width, which was limited when
this limit was set).

The bug potentially applies on Unix too.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] de on w95b crash rterm with long strings (PR#577)
Prof Brian Ripley