A user in Japan reported a similar problem on the Revolutions blog (
http://bit.ly/FKP2I ), and my best guess is that it's an (unintended!)
effect of using locales. The developers in New Haven are looking at it, and
I expect they'll be able to post an update to CRAN soon.
# David Smith

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Olivier ETERRADOSSI <
Olivier.Eterradossi@ema.fr> wrote:

> Hi list,
> My attention was drawn to the foreach package by recent posts...I decided
> to have a look...
> I'm using R.2.9.1 on Windows, I have downloaded the foreach package today
> (v 1.2.1), together with iterators (v. 1.0.1) and codetools (v.0.2-2).
> Full of hope I try the most simple thing of all out of the package vignette
> :
>
>>  x <- foreach(i = 1:3) %do% sqrt(i)
>>
> and get :
>
>> Erreur dans sqrt(i) : indice hors limites ( i.e. "error in sqrt(i) : index
>> out of bounds")
>>
> but when trying :
>
>  x<-foreach(i = 1:3) %do% print(sqrt(i))
>>
> I get :
>
>  [1] 1
>> [1] 1.414214
>> [1] 1.732051
>> Erreur dans print(sqrt(i)) : indice hors limites
>>
> Probably I didn't drink enough coffee this morning and I'm still asleep :
> it is obvious that  I miss a point... but I am unable to see which one.
> Any help appreciated ! Many thanks, and very best regards Olivier
>
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