[Rd] error? at stem() (PR#6645)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I don't get a loop on any of my machines, but the problem is integer 
overflow.  Note that

> stem(rep(1, 100), atom=1e-7)

  The decimal point is 8 digit(s) to the left of the |

  100000000 | 
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+20

> stem(rep(0.1, 100))

  The decimal point is 9 digit(s) to the left of the |

  100000000 | 
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+20

both work.

Of course, with exactly equality, one should do something more sensible, 
and I have done that in R-devel.


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 hamaoka at fbc.keio.ac.jp wrote:

> Full_Name: Yutaka Hamaoka
> Version: 1.8.1(Raqua)
> OS: OSX 10.3
> Submission from: (NULL) (218.140.186.74)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've found "stem()" falls into infinit loop when x has no variance. Let's try
> 
> x<-matrix(1,nrow=100,ncol=1)
> stem(x)
> 
> Then you will get infinit flow.
> 
>  The decimal point is 9 digit(s) to the left of the |
> 
>   -214748360 |
>   -214748358 |
>   -214748356 |
>   -214748354 |
>   -214748352 |
>   -214748350 |
>   -214748348 |
>   -214748346 |
>   -214748344 |
>   -214748342 |
> 
> 
> ....
> 
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