eval(match.call()) (PR#9339)

Full_Name: Justin Harrington
Version: 2.4.0
OS: Fedora Core 6
Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.121.203)


When I type the (albeit stupid) command

eval(match.call())

R crashes with the following messages (truncated):

*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated

The complete output is available at http://md.stat.ubc.ca/Routput.txt

For reference, here are the results from version:

platform       i686-redhat-linux-gnu
arch           i686
os             linux-gnu
system         i686, linux-gnu
status
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          10
day            03
svn rev        39566
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)

and my version of R was installed using yum from the fedora repositories.

Hmmm....

I cannot replicate this using:

  R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)

on FC5:

eval(match.call())

Error in match.call(definition, call, expand.dots) :
        '.Primitive...' is not a function


I'm not running "Zod" yet, but:

1. There have been LOTS of updates to FC6 since release from watching
the FC lists. I would be sure that your system is fully updated.

2. You might want to see if compiling and installing 2.4.0 patched from
CRAN resolves this behavior at all, though I do not see anything readily
evident in the NEWS file to suggest that any fixes are relevant here.

3. If neither of those do anything, it would be worthwhile to file a bug
report at RH's Bugzilla against R to see if there is something unique in
the version that they are creating in Fedora Extras. Tom Callaway, RH's
maintainer for R, does read r-devel, so he may pipe in here also. I have
cc'd him on this reply.

From the BT you provided, this looks like it could be a libreadline

issue perhaps.


HTH,

Marc Schwartz