[Rd] capture.output() is trying to allocate 17179869182.6 Gb on my not so big data.frame

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi,

This is what I get with recent R devel on a 64-bit Ubuntu laptop:

   > mydf <- data.frame(a=1:2080, b=1001:2040, c=letters, d=LETTERS, 
e=1:1040)
   > mydf_in_a_character_vector <- capture.output(mydf)
   Error in print.default(m, ..., quote = quote, right = right) :
     cannot allocate memory block of size 17179869182.6 Gb

I get something similar with R 2.14.1.

Cheers,
H.

 > sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2012-01-16 r58124)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

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Hervé Pagès

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