[Rd] String Length Limit (PR#1040)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 possolo@crd.ge.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Antonio Possolo
> Version: 1.3.0
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (192.35.44.3)
>
>
> If one attempts to read a character string from a file using scan,
> and the string comprises more than 8190 characters, then the string
> is truncated to this length, and no warning is issued.
>
> I've observed this both in the Linux and Win implementations of R 1.3.0.
> S-PLUS (v. 6.0 rel. 1 for Sun SPARC) does not suffer from this behavior.

Although readLines is normally to be preferred (in R and S-PLUS 6: it's a
lot faster for a start), we've fixed this so that scan() in

R 1.3.1 will give a warning
R 1.4.0 will allow unlimited lines (unlimited by R, that is).

As ever, previews are in r-patched and r-devel (tar bundles/rysnc)
respectively.

The 1.4.0 version needed quite a lot of re-writing of code, too much for a
patch release.

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