From Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de  Mon Jul 25 15:31:56 2005
From: Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Hothorn)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:31:56 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Buglet in src/appl/splines.c (PR#8030)
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

>
> >>>>> "BeT" == Berwin A Turlach <berwin at maths.uwa.edu.au>
> >>>>>     on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:24:51 +0200 (CEST) writes:
>
>     BeT> I was looking at "splinefun" and the underlying C code
>     BeT> and believe that there is a memory access error in the
>     BeT> C routine "spline_eval".
>
> ...........
> ...........
>
> Excellent, Berwin!
>
> Specifically the part about why the bug never really triggers
> wrong behavior.
> Your mail should be saved in  "The Annals of R"  ...
>

the next version of the `fortunes' package will have

R> fortune(134)

Excellent, Berwin!
Specifically the part about why the bug never really triggers wrong
behavior. Your mail should be saved in `The Annals of R' ...
   -- Martin Maechler (after Berwin A Turlach reported a buglet in
      `spline_eval')
      R-devel (July 2005)

Best,

Torsten

> I'm fixing according to your proposal -- for "R-devel" or
> (SVN) R/trunk/ only.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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[Rd] Buglet in src/appl/splines.c (PR#8030)
Torsten Hothorn