[R] Invalid Page fault - R ver 1.0.0 on Windows98 SE

[Uwe Ligges]

partha_bagchi at hgsi.com wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the quick response Prof. Ripley. I will try to upgrade over the
> holidays. In the meantime, I will try to reproduce the page fault.
> Unfortunately, it does not happen at the same place at all times. I have
> noticed that, cut and paste from window's notepad did not produce the fault
> while it did while doing so from the Programmer's File Editor 1.01 (beware
> though since my sample sizes are small). It happen sometimes while simply
> doing command line editing.
> BTW: doing a quickview of CRTDLL.DLL shows (on my system) in the Export
> table that
> for the ordinal 017f, the entry point is 0000be95 and the name is fwscanf
> Does that help any?
>  TIA.

It seems to be the bug mentioned by Prof Brian D Ripley.
The problem is not pasting (I also thought this would be the problem at
first), but a problem with the command history.
If you have got a big number of short lines, i.e. more than 512 lines
with less than 16kB in your history, R-1.0.0 crashes sometimes.

I do not understand why you don't want to upgrade at once. Upgrading
takes mostly less time than writing this mail ;-).

A quick workaround (so the next 512 lines will): Delete your file
.Rhistory .

Regards,
Uwe Ligges
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