lambda error update
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
18 Sep 1999 01:53:55 +0200
Matthew Wiener <mcw@ln.nimh.nih.gov> writes:
> Two more details:
>
> Someone else who works here, and hasn't used 0.65.0, thinks he's seen the
> error before. He restarted R, and it went away.
>
> Second, I think the relevant code is in
> SEXP do_function, in eval.c in the main directory.
>
> line 695: WrongArgCount("lambda")
>
> Beyond that I'm afraid I'm getting in over my head.
>
> Matt
"lambda" is essentially "function" (revealing the fact that R's engine
is really a Lisp/Scheme dialect). It's a very strange error you're
getting because the calls to "function" are almost impossible to
create, except by having the parser parse a
function (<args>) <body>
construction and that would set up a call with the right number of
parameters (xxdefun in gram.y calls lang4). The arg count got changed
from 0.64.2 to 0.65.0 (from 3 to 4) to accommodate the stored source
attribute. I suppose that a function stored in a saved workspace might
cause some kind of mess when restored.
You can provoke the error by messing with the parse tree of function()
constructs, e.g.
> e<-quote(function()1)
> e[[4]]<-NULL
> eval(e)
Error: incorrect number of arguments to "lambda"
> e
function() 1
> e<-quote(function()1)
> e[[3]]<-NULL
> eval(e)
Error: incorrect number of arguments to "lambda"
> e
function() "function()1"
> e[[2]]<-NULL
> eval(e)
Error: incorrect number of arguments to "lambda"
> e
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
(That last one seems to indicate yet another spot where the deparser
needs to take better care).
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