[Rd] read.spss, R 1.3.0, win2k

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

I've found the problem.  The read.spss code was free-ing not Free-ing
memory allocated by Calloc.  On most platforms that would work, but not on
Windows where Calloc/Free and calloc/free use separate memory managers.

This explains the randomness of the problems.

I'm solving this (and a few other things) in 0.4-6.
I will put up a pre-compiled version, so update.packages() should fetch it
tomorrow.


On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Thomas Lumley wrote:
> >
> > read.spss() is giving "Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be
> > closed..." on all the files I have tried (the same happens with Rterm as
> > well). This is R1.3.0 and the current `foreign',under Win2k.
> >
> > The problem doesn't happen under Linux on a different machine and
> > didn't happen with an earlier version of R and foreign under NT4 on a
> > different machine.
> >
> > As I updated to a new computer, new OS and new version of R at the same
> > time I don't know which component is responsible. Has anyone used
> > read.spss() with R 1.3.0 under Windows?
>
>
> [R-1.3.0, foreign_0.4-4, WinNT 4.0]
>
> A generated test file in SPSS 10, containing a  "matrix(c(2,3,3,5),
> ncol=2)", can be read in:
>
>   read.spss("c:/test.sav")
>
> $VAR00001
> [1] 2 3
>
> $VAR00002
> [1] 3 5
>
>
>
> But trying to read a non existant file crashes R on my machine:
>
>   read.spss("c:/nonexistant.abc")  # R crashes

This is already solved in 0.4-5.

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