[Rd] a bug? (PR#968)

[maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

    PD> michael@stat.duke.edu writes:
    >> --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR
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    >> Dear R,
    >> 
    >> I would like to report what I think is a bug in R.  I am running R
    >> within emacs on a Digital AlphaStation.  See the version information
    >> at the end of my R session for details.  I also attach a copy of the
    >> file that is read in the `read.table' command.
    >> 
    >> Here's my R session, with a few comments added in to show what I
    >> think is wrong:
    >> 
    >> #######################################################################
    >> R : Copyright 2000, The R Development Core Team
    >> Version 1.0.1  (April 14, 2000)


    PD> You could very well be tickling a memory bug, but that version of R is
    PD> more than a year out of date and things have changed considerably in
    PD> the meantime. Could you please retry with a more recent version? 

    PD> And, BTW, large attachments are quite difficult to extract once they
    PD> have been mangled by the mailing list and bug filing software, so only
    PD> use them as a last resort. It's much preferable if you put it up
    PD> separately on your homepage or FTP site.

yes, indeed!

And, btw, the bug is gone in R version 1.2.3 (and R-devel): 

 > mohan <- read.table ( "/u/maechler/R/MM/MISC/mohan.dat", header=T )
 > sapply ( mohan, data.class )
    SEEDID   LINEAGE       POP    REGION    CARBON       DAY      GERM 
 "numeric"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric" 

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/

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