[R] Substring error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, talepanda wrote:

> It occurs why start or stop could not be converted into integer of
> length > 0 by using as.interger().
>
> More presicely,
> if( !isInteger(sa) || !isInteger(so) || k == 0 || l == 0 ) # c code
> where sa is start, so is stop, k is length(start), l is length(stop)
>
> For example:
>
> substr("orz",character(0),0)
> substr("orz",numeric(0),0)
> substr("orz",logical(0),0)
> substr("orz",integer(0),0)
> substr("orz",NULL,0)
>
> produce the error because of k==0
>
>
> But there seems to be another case which I don't know.

That's essentially it.  The first two conditions are merely protection 
against someone calling the .Internal directly.

In particular, there is no documentation as to what happens if start or 
stop is NA, a case I don't think is handled correctly.

>
>
> On 1/25/07, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <shubhak at ambaresearch.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Do anybody know when and why the below error we get?
>>
>>
>>
>> Error in substr(x, as.integer(start), as.integer(stop)) :
>>         invalid substring argument(s) in substr()
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Shubha
>>
>>
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