[Rd] segmentation fault: formula() with long variable names (PR#3680)

jerome at hivnet.ubc.ca jerome at hivnet.ubc.ca
Thu Aug 7 21:32:50 MEST 2003


R version: 1.7.1
OS: Red Hat Linux 7.2

In this example, I would expect an error for the overly long variable 
name. This is always reproducable for me.

> formula(paste("y~",paste(rep("x",50000),collapse="")))
Segmentation fault

Sincerely,
Jerome Asselin

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