[R] if i paste this into my windows 3.3.2 R console, it crashes

[Anthony Damico]

thanks!  https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17206

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 07/01/2017 5:51 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
>
>> Hi Anthony,
>> I think you have included most of the forbidden characters in Windows
>> folder names and while I am too lazy to count the characters, you may
>> have exceeded the 259 character limit as well. Are there really
>> embedded EOLs as well? This is truly a masterpiece of computer
>> disobedience.
>>
>
> I haven't looked closely to see what goes wrong, but the problems you list
> should lead to an error message, not a crash.  So yes, Anthony should
> report this as a bug.  Anthony, if you don't have a bug reporting account
> you won't be able to do so; write to me privately and I'll create one for
> you (with your choice of associated email address).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Anthony Damico <ajdamico at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hi, should i file this on https://bugs.r-project.org/  ?  thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> # crash R with this command
>>> dir.create( "C:/My Directory/PEW/Hispanic Trends/2015/2013 Recontact
>>> Survey
>>> of Asian Ame
>>> ricans              Field dates: 10/16/13 - 10/31/13 Respondents:
>>> Nationally-rep
>>> resentative sample of 802 Asian Americans ages 18 and older. Margin of
>>> Error: +/
>>> - 5.0 percentage points at the 95% confidence interval. This survey
>>> focused
>>> on p
>>> olitics, attitudes regarding immigration legislation, illegal
>>> immigration,
>>> and n
>>> aturalization./"  , recursive = TRUE , showWarnings = FALSE )
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 10586)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
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