[Rd] Re: [R] gremlin in rep() (PR#619)

[thomas@biostat.washington.edu]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Colin Farrow wrote:

> the following occurred inadvertently and brought R-1.1.0 down
> 
> rep(1:3, c(4,2,-6))
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

In main/seq.c:rep2 we only check that the total length of the result is
positive, not that each part is.

Easy fix, I think.

	-thomas

> 
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686             
> os       linux-gnu        
> system   i686, linux-gnu  
> status                    
> major    1                
> minor    1.0              
> year     2000             
> month    June             
> day      15               
> language R 
> also on Solaris2.7 
> 
> -- 
> Colin Farrow
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Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle


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