[Rd] Sys.time dumps core at start-up (PR#821)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 kleiweg@let.rug.nl wrote:

>
> R dumps core if the first command I use is Sys.time():
>
>     > Sys.time()
>     Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> This works fine:
>
>     > s <- Sys.time()
>     > s
>     [1] "2001-01-23 19:38:49 CET"
>
> This works fine too:
>
>     > 1+1
>     [1] 2
>     > Sys.time()
>     [1] "2001-01-23 19:40:56 CET"

It does not fail on my RH6.2 systems, so can you debug it please?

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> --please do not edit the information below--
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> Version:
>  platform = i586-pc-linux-gnu
>  arch = i586
>  os = linux-gnu
>  system = i586, linux-gnu
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 2.1
>  year = 2001
>  month = 01
>  day = 15
>  language = R
>
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
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> Peter Kleiweg
> http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/
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