[Rd] list2env() is broken

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I have no idea what 'timeout' means, but that *should* take an 
extraordinarily long time (it is at least quadratic in the input 
length).  This is the point of hashing -- you *need* hash=TRUE, and 
you should probably also set 'size' in new.env.

There was an obvious missing PROTECT in this function.

I do wonder if you are yet familiar with the debugging tools described 
in 'Writing R Extensions' -- please do use them before reporting.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Hervé Pagès wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The following code produces different kinds of problems depending
> on which platform you run it:
>
>  x <- as.list(1:200000)
>  names(x) <- paste("A", 1:200000, sep="")
>  e <- list2env(x)
>
> Timeout on Linux, crash on Mac and Windows, with R 2.12.0 and
> current R devel.
>
> The "multi-assign" mode (i.e. when the 'envir' arg is supplied)
> doesn't seem to have this problem.
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
> -- 
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