[R] Error: bad value ? what is that?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Jose Quesada wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm finding a very strange error.
> For no good reason my R console (Rgui.exe, R 2.5.0, under win XP) stops  
> producing anything meaningful, and just returns:
> Error: bad value
> to _whatever_ I enter. It starts doing this after a while, not immediately  
> when launched.
>
> I have to restart R when this happens.
> No idea why. I didn't change anything in the R config that I remenber.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
Hmm that message comes from deep down inside SETCAR() and friends. I 
can't see other reasons for it than memory corruption. Are you running 
some rogue C code? Is the machine flaky in other respects?