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

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This should be fixed in R-patched and R-devel (and has been since
Saturday).  Certainly it has gone away for me.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Hedderik van Rijn wrote:

> >>> 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.
>
>

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