[R] gremlin in rep()

[Yves Gauvreau]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richards, Tom" <richards at pci.upmc.edu>
To: "'Liaw, Andy'" <andy_liaw at merck.com>; "r-help"
<r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>; "'Yves Gauvreau'" <cyg at sympatico.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: [R] gremlin in rep()


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 1:13 PM
> > To: r-help; 'Yves Gauvreau'
> > Subject: RE: [R] gremlin in rep()
> >
> >
> > This is what I got in Splus 2000:
> >
> > > rep(1:3,c(4,5,-6))
> > Error in rep.int: Negative values in "times" meaningless:
> > rep.int(x, times)
> >
> > Seems like rep() is R is lacking some error traps.
> >
> > Andy
>
> That's interesting, because, under Splus 2000 (R 1.1.0), I get:
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you mean Windows 2000?

YG

>
> > rep(1:3,c(4,5,-6))
> [1] 1 1 1
>
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Yves Gauvreau[SMTP:cyg at sympatico.ca]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:51 AM
> > > To: r-help
> > > Subject: Re: [R] gremlin in rep()
> > >
> > > I tried it on NT 4 SP 6 R-1.1.0 and it crashes too.
> > >
> > > If you try rep(1:3, c(1,3)) you'll get:
> > >
> > > Error in rep(1:3, c(1, 3)) : invalid number of copies in "rep"
> > >
> > > It look's like R doesn't like the negative number in your
> > case. It would
> > > be
> > > nice if it would give the same error message in both case.
> > >
> > > YG
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Colin Farrow" <c.farrow at compserv.gla.ac.uk>
> > > To: "r-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:29 AM
> > > Subject: [R] gremlin in rep()
> > >
> > >
> > > > the following occurred inadvertently and brought R-1.1.0 down
> > > >
> > > > rep(1:3, c(4,2,-6))
> > > > Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> > > >
> > > > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > > > arch     i686
> > > > os       linux-gnu
> > > > system   i686, linux-gnu
> > > > status
> > > > major    1
> > > > minor    1.0
> > > > year     2000
> > > > month    June
> > > > day      15
> > > > language R
> > > > also on Solaris2.7
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Colin Farrow
> > > > Computing Service, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
> > > > Tel: 0141 330 4862, c.farrow at compserv.gla.ac.uk
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