[Rd] (PR#10437) segfault on functions with 'source' attribute

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, karl at huftis.org wrote:

> For the record: The reason I used attr(myfun, "source") = FALSE, is that I
> misread the example 'Tidying R Code' in 'Writing R Extensions', which calls
> for attr(myfun, "source") = NULL.
>
> Somehow setting 'source' to FALSE seems more natural to me than
> setting it to NULL.

attr(myfun, "source") <- NULL does not 'set it to NULL', it removes the 
attribute.

> ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk:
>
>> I am not sure why you would want to do that, but the C code does assume
>> source attributes were put there by R, and changing tests from !isNull to
>> isString in a few places will fix that.
>
>

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