[Rd] Crash with Unicode and sub (PR#14114)

[Peter Dalgaard]

g.russell at eos-solutions.com wrote:
> Full_Name: George Russell
> Version: 2.10.0
> OS: Windows XP Version 2002 SP 2
> Submission from: (NULL) (217.111.3.131)
> 
> 
> The following typed into R --vanilla induces a crash:
> -- cut here --
> gctorture()
> u <- intToUtf8(c(rep(1e3,1e2),32,c(rep(1e3,1e2))))
> v <- rep(u,1e2)
> v <- sub(" ","",v)
> v %in% ""
> -- cut here --
> 
> sessionInfo() says:
> 
> -- cut here --
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252   
> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                   
> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252    
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
> -- cut here --
> 
> I apologise for not testing this with R-2.10.1 but as far as I can see there are
> only source releases available so far, which I am not able to compile.
>

2.10.1 RC is available now. Please check. It does seem to be
reproducible in the Windows version, or at least it takes a very long
time, but that means running under Wine on SUSE for me. I don't see the
effect with the Linux build.

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