[R] long character data

[Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi]

Hi,
When trying to generate very long strings, my R hangs without any error
message, even if given much memory.

# e.g.
x <- character(10)
for (i in 1:10) x[i] <- paste(1:1000, collapse="abc")
paste(x, collapse="")

# or directly
paste(1:10000, collapse="abc")

Am I violating any max(nchar(character())) or is this a bug?

Regards


Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi



R --vanilla

> version
         _
platform Windows
arch     x86
os       Win32
system   x86, Win32
status
major    0
minor    90.1
year     1999
month    December
day      15
language R

> gc()
         free  total (Mb)
Ncells 123274 250000  4.8
Vcells 746486 786432  6.0


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