[R] RW 0.64.2 substring() string truncation?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"T.E.Diaz" <tediaz at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> writes:

> [1] 8192
> > tmp <- paste(tmp,"23456789",sep="",collapse="")
> > nchar(tmp)
> [1] 8200
> > substring(tmp,8190,8192)
> [1] "111"
> > substring(tmp,8190,8193)
> Warning in substr(x, as.integer(start), as.integer(stop)) : a string was truncated in substr()
> [1] "111"

Possibly - ;) - related to this:

src/include/Defn.h:#define MAXELTSIZE 8192 /* The largest string size */

There are a couple of fixed-size arrays in the code. We'll want to
eradicate them at some point but it's pretty painful to do. Do you
have a serious application for text strings of more than 8k length?

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