[Rd] eval(match.call()) (PR#9339)

[marc_schwartz at comcast.net]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 20:49 +0100, harringt at stat.ubc.ca wrote:
> Full_Name: Justin Harrington
> Version: 2.4.0
> OS: Fedora Core 6
> Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.121.203)
> 
> 
> When I type the (albeit stupid) command
> 
> eval(match.call())
> 
> R crashes with the following messages (truncated):
> 
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated
> 
> The complete output is available at http://md.stat.ubc.ca/Routput.txt
> 
> For reference, here are the results from version:
> 
> platform       i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.0
> year           2006
> month          10
> day            03
> svn rev        39566
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
> 
> and my version of R was installed using yum from the fedora repositories.

Hmmm....

I cannot replicate this using:

  R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)

on FC5:

> eval(match.call())
Error in match.call(definition, call, expand.dots) :
        '.Primitive...' is not a function


I'm not running "Zod" yet, but:

1. There have been LOTS of updates to FC6 since release from watching
the FC lists. I would be sure that your system is fully updated.

2. You might want to see if compiling and installing 2.4.0 patched from
CRAN resolves this behavior at all, though I do not see anything readily
evident in the NEWS file to suggest that any fixes are relevant here.

3. If neither of those do anything, it would be worthwhile to file a bug
report at RH's Bugzilla against R to see if there is something unique in
the version that they are creating in Fedora Extras. Tom Callaway, RH's
maintainer for R, does read r-devel, so he may pipe in here also. I have
cc'd him on this reply.


>From the BT you provided, this looks like it could be a libreadline
issue perhaps.


HTH,

Marc Schwartz