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

[Hedderik van Rijn]

>>> 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"

This is the same behavior I encountered. The first time _always_ goes 
fine, the next time (also by pressing "up", "enter") sometimes(?) 
results in a segv and sometimes in a bus error. (Using R 1.6.1, Mac OS 
X, latest OS X update, 10.2.3? and just released fink installed.)

As I was not sure if I could replicate it always, I only referred to it 
in a "P.S." in the second email I sent on this topic.

  - Hedderik.