[Rd] R-crash using cut-and-paste (PR#472)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 dtrenkler@nts6.oec.uni-osnabrueck.de wrote:

> Dear R-Team,
> 
> sorry for bugging (:-)), it's me again. In the FAQ coming along with the
> R distribution it reads:
> 
> If R executes an illegal instruction, or dies with an operating system
> error message that indicates a problem in the program (as opposed to
> something like "disk full"), then it is certainly a bug.
> 
> This encourages me to describe a crash I encountered a few minutes ago.
> 
> I had written a function in an  editor, copied it to the clip-board and
> tried to establish it in my workspace (cut and paste). Suddenly I got
> the following message form Windows NT (sorry it's german):

[...]

How big was the function you were trying to paste in?  There are 
distinct limits to such cut-and-paste, not all of which are under 
our control. To quote more of the FAQ:

  Please include an example that reproduces the problem, preferably the
  simplest one you have found.

Without such an example, there is nothing we can do to help.

As a general work-around, you will find it much easier to use source() to
load in sizeable functions than cut-and-paste.


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