segmentation fault in R (PR#286)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 oka@debian.or.jp wrote:

>   c(1,2,3) %*% c(1,2,3)[drop=TRUE]
> 
> or
> 
>   c(1,2,3) %*% c(1,2,3)[drop=FALSE]
> 
> caused segmentation fault. < 0.65.0, Linux >

We are very grateful to Martin Maechler for working hard on tracking down
many such things. In the current R-release it reports (as it should)

> c(1,2,3) %*% c(1,2,3)[drop=TRUE]
Error in c(1, 2, 3)[drop = TRUE] : no index specified

Thank you for your report.

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