[Rd] segfault in approx() (PR#6809)

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Apr 22 00:11:00 CEST 2004


kjetil at entelnet.bo writes:

> This is R1.9.0, windows XP
> 
> I run across the following:
> 
> It is admittedly silly, but it shouldn't segfault:
> 
> test <- list(y=1:100, x=rep(NaN, 100))
> approx(test, xout=rep(NaN, 10))
> 
> Bombs!

Yup. Sanity check needed on entrance to approx1. I suppose that

  if (!n) return NaN;

should do the trick.


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