From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jun 13 16:57:21 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:57:21 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: bad fisher.test() bug (PR#1662)
Message-ID: <200206131557.RAA24474@pubhealth.ku.dk>

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Martin Maechler wrote:

> Okay, I found a much smaller table  --- and a different place
> for the seg.fault :
> > fisher.test(cbind(0,c(0,0,1)))


That one is easy:  You (MM) have calculated fact[2], but fact is only of
length 2 (for values 0 and 1), so ico gets overwritten.

I now suspect that my fix for the original bug is merely a fix for a
symptom, so am going to replace it by an error message.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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bad fisher.test() bug (PR#1662)
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