[Rd] R 2.5.0 refuses to print enough digits to recover exact floating point values

[hadley wickham]

> I think this is a bug in the MacOS X runtime.  I've checked the C99
> standard, and can see no limits on the precision that you should be able
> to specify to printf.

That seems quite possible - it's interesting that increasing the
number of digits (ie 1e7 vs 1e6) doesn't crash, but takes up about 1.2
gig of ram.

Hadley