[Rd] Rubbish values written with zero-length vectors (PR#14217)

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Confirmed behavior on R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-01-12 r50990) and
R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-02-14 r51138)
[Windows Vista]:

INTEGERS:
> v <- integer(5)
> v
[1] 0 0 0 0 0
> v[[2]] <- integer(0)
> v
[1]       0 2892960       0       0       0
> v[[4]] <- 1L[c()]
> v
[1]       0 2892960       0 2892960       0
> str(v)
 int [1:5] 0 2892960 0 2892960 0

DOUBLES:
> u <- integer(5)
> u
[1] 0 0 0 0 0
> u[[2]] <- integer(0)
> u
[1]       0 2892960       0       0       0
> u[[4]] <- 1L[c()]
> u
[1]       0 2892960       0 2892960       0
> str(u)
 str [1:5] 0 2892960 0 2892960 0

> u[[5]] <- double(0)
> u
[1]  0.000000e+00  3.487453e+07  0.000000e+00  3.487453e+07 4.261222e-314
> str(u)
 num [1:5] 0.00 3.49e+07 0.00 3.49e+07 4.26e-314

The actual "rubbish" values are the same within each R session, but
differ between R sessions.

Certain looks like stray memory cells are assigned.

Wanted behavior should probably be:

> u[[5]] <- double(0)
Error in u[[5]] <- double(0) : replacement has length zero

cf. u[5] <- double(0) and

> u[[5]] <- double(5)
Error in u[[5]] <- double(5) :
  more elements supplied than there are to replace

/Henrik

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:45 PM,  <g.russell at eos-solutions.com> wrote:
> Full_Name: George Russell
> Version: 2.10.0, 2.11.0 (2009-12-13 r50716)
> OS: Windows
> Submission from: (NULL) (217.111.3.131)
>
>
> R trace:
> -- cut here --
>> v <- integer(0)
>> v[[1]] <- v
>> v
> [1] 20522144
>> v <- numeric(0)
>> v[[1]] <- v
>> v
> [1] 4.254131e-314
>> 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
> -- cut here --
> Clearly the assignments v[[1]] <- v do not do anything useful, the problem is I
> don't understand where the strange values left in v come from.
>
> The same problem occurs with the 2.11.0 release r50716 and --vanilla. For
> vanilla in Windows CMD mode I get different values in v, but ones which are to
> me equally strange.
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
> George Russell
>
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