From hb at maths.lth.se  Thu Nov 24 01:09:48 2005
From: hb at maths.lth.se (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:09:48 +1100
Subject: [Rd] Infinite recursion in S3 methods crashes R on windows
 (related to PR#8203?)
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Hi, trying the same on WinXP I get

:R 2.1.1 Patched (2005-09-19)
 > myf(1)
Error: protect(): protection stack overflow

R 2.2.0 Patched (2005-11-21 r36410):
 > myf(1)
Error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite recursion / 
options(expressions=)?
 > options(expressions=50000)
 > myf(1)
Error: protect(): protection stack overflow

So either it has been fixed or there is a bug there that only shows up 
under certain conditions.

Cheers

Henrik


Rich FitzJohn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Infinite recursion in S3 methods seem to crash R on Windows 2000 (R
> terminating with the ("Rgui.exe has generated errors...") message,
> rather than throwing an error.  This happens with both Rgui and Rterm.
> 
> The following toy example triggers this:
> myf <- function(x, ...)
>   UseMethod("myf")
> 
> myf.default <- function(x, ...)
>   myf(x)
> 
> myf(1)
> ...R crashes...
> 
> Which I would expect to terminate with the usual "evaluation nested
> too deeply: infinite recursion" or protect stack overflow message.
> 
> This may be related to the reported bug 8203 - apologies if this has
> been fixed.  I couldn't find specific mention of this in the NEWS
> file.
> 
> This does not happen on R 2.1.0 on Windows 2000 (same machine), or on
> R 2.2.0 on Linux.  R/Machine version below.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rich
> 
> Version:
> platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> arch = i386
> os = mingw32
> system = i386, mingw32
> status =
> major = 2
> minor = 2.0
> year = 2005
> month = 10
> day = 06
> svn rev = 35749
> language = R
> 
> Windows 2000 Professional (build 2195) Service Pack 4.0
> 
> Locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_New Zealand.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_New
> Zealand.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_New
> Zealand.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_New Zealand.1252
> 
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
> package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads,
> package:base
> 
> 
> --
> Rich FitzJohn
> rich.fitzjohn <at> gmail.com   |    http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/richa183
>                       You are in a maze of twisty little functions, all alike
> 
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[Rd] Infinite recursion in S3 methods crashes R on windows (related to PR#8203?)
Henrik Bengtsson