[Rd] Using \u2030 in plot axis label -> stack smashing

[Gavin Simpson]

Dear List

I just noticed the following behaviour in R 2.3.1 Patched (2006-06-13
r38342) and confirmed similar behaviour in R 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-18
r39383) & R 2.5.0 (2006-09-18 r39383) - which may actually be the same
thing?, that trying to plot the unicode character \u2030 (which should
be in a ‰ [per mille] sign) in an axis label leads to the following
error:

*** stack smashing detected ***: /home/gavin/R/R-devel/build/bin/exec/R
terminated
Aborted

The simplest, reproducible example I have tried is:

plot(1:10, ylab = "\u2030")

This is on a Fedora Core 5 box. Relevant version/session info below.

I presume this is how you are supposed to enter Unicode characters for
use in stings etc? If so, can anyone else reproduce this - or is this
something peculiar to my set-up and/or lack of fonts?

Cheers

Gav

## R 2.3.1 patched
> sessionInfo()
Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-06-13 r38342)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
"datasets"
[7] "base"
> version
               _
platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i686
os             linux-gnu
system         i686, linux-gnu
status         Patched
major          2
minor          3.1
year           2006
month          06
day            13
svn rev        38342
language       R
version.string Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-06-13 r38342)

## R 2.4.0
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-18 r39383)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
"datasets"
[7] "base"
> version
               _
platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i686
os             linux-gnu
system         i686, linux-gnu
status         alpha
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          09
day            18
svn rev        39383
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-18 r39383)

## R 2.5.0
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-09-18 r39383)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
"datasets"
[7] "base"
> version
               _
platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i686
os             linux-gnu
system         i686, linux-gnu
status         Under development (unstable)
major          2
minor          5.0
year           2006
month          09
day            18
svn rev        39383
language       R
version.string R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-09-18
r39383)
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