[Bioc-devel] big in IRanges 1.9.1

[luke at stat.uiowa.edu]

I reduced an intermittent bug in IRanges to the following:

nr <- 47
idx <- 48:49
for (i in 1:10000)
     if (IRanges:::anyMissingOrOutside(idx, -nr, NULL)) browser()

This should never enter the browser but does reliable for me with 10000 reps.
(R-devel and IRanges 1.9.1)

The problem is code in IRanges:::.bracket.Index that does

     function (idx, lx, nms = NULL, dup.nms = FALSE, asRanges = FALSE,
               allowAppend = FALSE) {
         ...
         if (anyMissingOrOutside(idx, -lx, if (!allowAppend) lx))

If allowAppend it TRUE then the 'upper' argument to
anyMissingOroutside is NULL, and in anyMissingOrOutside this is
converted by as.integer to integer(0), but the C code that is called
looks at the first element without checking the length. Perhaps the
simplest fix is for anyMissingOrOutside to test for NULL and use the
default value in that case; it would probably be good for the C code
to do a sanity check on types and lengths as well.

Best,

luke

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Luke Tierney
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