[Rd] rbind fails with zero row data.frame and non-data.frame (PR#9657)

[lawremi at iastate.edu]

Full_Name: Michael Lawrence
Version: 2.5.0
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (69.5.145.41)


With R 2.5.0, when trying to rbind a zero row data.frame to a 
non-data.frame (eg character vector), the following error is output:
Error in all.levs[[j]] : subscript out of bounds

Here is the code to reproduce the error:
rbind(data.frame(foo=character(0), bar=character(0)), c(foo="foo", bar="bar"))

It seems that the code assumes that it has at least one data.frame but 
the data.frame was filtered out at the beginning, because it had zero 
rows.

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Version:
 platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i686
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i686, linux-gnu
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 5.0
 year = 2007
 month = 04
 day = 23
 svn rev = 41293
 language = R
 version.string = R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)

Locale:
C

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