[R] Sweave & xtable [problem solved/workaround -> bug in xtable or textConnection?]

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> > cat(paste(rep("123456789!",1000),collapse=""))
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x4207a4cb in strlen () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> 
> (The cat(...) call being obtained with up-arrow command recall) 

To be precise, it happens *next* time I press "up"
 
> Apparently this is not quite reproducible and might depend on stuff in
> the workspace, but it looks suspicious. Will have a better look.

It does seem to depend on my workspace and/or my history file, neither
of which are particularly interesting. The segfault happens deep into
readline calls, so it's not really appealing to try and track it down...

Apparently, it still happens with r-devel from Dec. 9 (which is the
most recent I have on that particular machine...).
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