[Rd] R crash with intToUtf8 on huge vectors (PR#14068)

[g.russell at eos-solutions.com]

Full_Name: George Russell
Version: 2.10.0
OS: Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2
Submission from: (NULL) (217.111.3.131)


Typing the following command into R --vanilla causes R to crash:

k <- intToUtf8(rep(1e3,1e7))

This is the output of sessionInfo():
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     

other attached packages:
[1] RODBC_1.3-1

Many thanks for your help and best wishes,

George Russell